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The Belfield Group ________________________________
the upholstery market with foam and fiber components . It was a logical step to add a foam-converting business to the group as part of our vertical integration efforts to service all three of our business units , as well as a strong trade orderbook . Each
of our businesses operates from its own facilities , with Tetrad and Clinchplain based in Lancashire , Belfield Furnishings in Derbyshire , and Westbridge operating in North Wales with two factories . Additionally , we have two facilities in Romania that make cut-and-sewn covers for our Westbridge business .”
Responsible manufacturing
In an effort to make its sofas easier to recycle and manufacture , Belfield has developed a new technology , known as Clip . “ Clip is the opportunity for us to get ahead of the upholstery market and our competitors by offering a solution that does not require a

Experience

meets invention
MB Textiles have been a key supplier to the furniture trade for the last 30 years and continue to grow & diversify their offerings . Belfield Group have been a key customer to MB Textiles for a number of years across all their divisions of upholstery , leisure & drapery . Offering a wide variety of interior end uses across their supply base .
Contact tom @ mbtextiles . com mbtextiles . com conventionally upholstered manufacturing methodology . In upholstery , investment in machinery is limited as assembly can only be done by skilled individuals such as frame assemblers and upholsterers . Every week , we manufacture 2500 sofas that are going into homes , the majority of which are replacing an old sofa destined for incineration , or even worse , landfill . The problem is that conventional sofas currently cannot be recycled , and considering that we fabricate 2500 units a week , this results in a substantial number of unrecyclable sofas being discarded . When we developed Clip , our plan was to address this issue .
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