Corporate

The Chomarat Group is an international textile group with a staff of 1,700 and a presence on 4 continents. It is a private company, owned by the Chomarat family. It has been run for over a century by 4 succeeding generations, each rising to the challenge of continual development in a ever changing world.

The group now has an extensive range of technologies and know-how. A wide variety of activities, which is rare for textile companies, enables it to be present in many markets and to offer greater added value to its customers.

An international presence:

To support the international development of its customers, the Chomarat Group relies on a local presence, with production sites close to the customer, and an extensive sales force and distribution network.

In Europe and the Mediterranean Basin

• In France,

The Chomarat Group has remained loyal to the region where it all began, with its operational headquarters, as well as its 3 main production sites, based in the Ardèche region. These three units specialize in different technologies and are designed for the production of textile and plastic coatings, textile finishing, special reinforcement materials for the building industry and composites. They employ around 700 people and cover the whole range of the Group’s know-how.
Paris is also the operational headquarters and the creative studio for the Chattawak™ brand.

• In Spain,

The Group has an automotive textile coating production site with a workforce of 50.

• In Tunisia

The Group has had a base in Tunisia for over 30 years and now has 4 production sites at Grombalia (30 mins from Tunis). It employs 650 people and combine various production units (automotive textile coatings, reinforcement materials for composites, making top of the range ready-to-wear clothing and car seat covers).

In the United States

Chomarat has been based in Anderson (South Carolina) since 1985 and has two production sites which are dedicated to manufacturing reinforcement materials for the composite and building industries and it employs 80 people.

In Asia

Chomarat has been doing business in China since the start of 2010. The site is in Taicang near Shanghai and produces reinforcement materials for Composites.

An organization based on Strategic Business Units

Chomarat has a global market presence and has set up an organization based on Strategic Business Units. This matrix structure enables Chomarat to develop synergies between all these business units by relying on teamwork.
It means customers can be given support in terms of their international developments by offering them the Group’s skills and know-how on a local basis and by exploiting its customer-specific expertise.

The Textiles Strategic Business Unit

This SBU brings together three areas of expertise:

• Textile and plastic coating materials (OSKIN™) designed for interior automotive trims. (seats, headrests, dashboards, door panels, carpets, etc.).
• Technical and decorative plastic coating materials (OFLEX™ and MYFLEX™) for clothing, furniture, luggage and protective clothing sectors, along with other industrial applications.
• Commission printing activity.

The Composites Strategic Business Unit

The Group has been active on the composites market for over 50 years and is one of the pioneers in this sector. It designs and manufactures a wide range of reinforcement materials: fabrics, multiaxials, complex combinations, sandwich structures, thermoplastic reinforcement materials, nonwoven, woven, grids, etc. It serves many markets such as construction, transport, marine, ballistics, recreation and wind energy.
Chomarat is well known on the market through flagship brands such as ROVICORE™ , ROVIFLOW™ , ROVIMAT™ , ARAMAT™, C-GRID™, MeC-GRID™, etc.

Chomarat is an innovative company and is now improving the spectrum of products it offers in the carbon field by developing ranges specifically adapted to direct technologies (RTM, Infusion).

The Fashion Strategic Business Unit

There are two activities that make Chomarat a major player in the world of fashion:

• CHATTAWAK™: a ready-to-wear women’s fashion brand, which is mid to top of the range, casual chic and was created in 2001. Its distribution network consists of around 130 shops with the Chattawak name which gives it a presence all over France.
  All the design for the collections is done in Paris at Chattawak’s creative studio.
• Top of the range commission clothing. With over 45 years’ fashion converting experience, Chomarat designs, fine tunes and manufactures all types of ready-to-wear fashion:  Menswear, Womenswear, Childrenswear, Warp & Weft, Cut & Sew.
  Chomarat’s quality, responsiveness and local presence mean that it is the preferred partner for French and European ready-to-wear labels and brands.