No‑Burn Upholstery™
Prevent Cigarette Burns
The Original No-Burn™ Upholstery Exclusive to gmf fabrics: ZERO Burns in 7+ Years
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Wipe‑Off™
Lipstick, Ketchup & Graffiti Wipe Right Off
Wipe-Off™ Keeps High-Contact Upholstery Soft & Looking New
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SUPREEN®
Superior Liquid Barrier
SUPREEN® Textiles Keep Liquids & Bodily Fluids Out for Senior Living, Healthcare & Hospitality Seating
Explore SUPREEN®1.5M Abrasion Series
1.5 Million Double Rubs
The Most in the Industry – So Your Upholstery Looks New Over the Life of Your Seating
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NewBack of Chair
Back of Chair Textiles
Maximum Durability, Cleanability & Aesthetics for Casino & Hospitality Seating
Explore BOC TextilesCONTRACT UPHOLSTERY FOR CASINOS, HOSPITALITY, HEALTHCARE & MORE
High-Performance Upholstery Fabric
Engineered to Take a Beating
Contract-grade coated fabrics and textiles that resist cigarette burns, stains, spills, and millions of double rubs, and clean with bleach.
By the numbers
Performance You Can Count On
80+
Years of high performance fabric
167,000
Yards of No-Burn Upholstery™ and 1.5M Abrasion Series sold
Cigarette-proof siliconeNo-Burn Upholstery™
185,000
Chairs upholstered with No-Burn Upholstery™
7
Years of zero No-Burn Upholstery™ failures
0
Cigarette burns with No-Burn Upholstery™
Maximum durability1.5M Abrasion Series
1.5M
Double rub abrasion resistance
40,000
Chairs upholstered with 1.5M Abrasion Series
95%
Bleach cleanable and free of harmful chemicals
Contract market only
Who We Serve
We serve the contract market only: architects and designers, seating manufacturers, and owners/operators, primarily for the following facilities:
Restaurants & Bars
Developed for busy dining and entertainment spaces, our fabrics resist food and drink stains, clothing dye transfer, and high-volume abrasion. From restaurant booths and dining chairs to bar seating, they help furnishings maintain their appearance despite frequent use and spills.
Senior Living & Healthcare
Assisted, independent and senior living, nursing and rehab facilities, as well as hospitals and clinics, rely on gmf fabrics to prevent stains from bodily fluids, food and drink, and withstand high-volume abrasion – so your common areas and exam rooms are always clean and hygienic.
Casinos & Tribal Gaming
Developed for the casino floor, our coated fabrics withstand the relentless abuse from the general public, including resistance to cigarette burns, lipstick, liquids, clothing dye transfer, and high abrasion – so your upholstery looks great for the life of your seating.
Hotel Guest Rooms
Designed for the demands of the hospitality industry, our fabrics withstand heavy abrasion, food and drink stains, and clothing dye transfer. Their easy cleanability helps keep guest room furnishings, upholstered headboards and seating looking fresh and inviting for every guest.
High-Performance Upholstery
Every coated fabric and textile from gmf fabrics is application-specific. Here’s how they compare:
Protection:- Cigarette-Proof: yes
- Graffiti-Free: yes
- Bleach-Cleanable: yes
- Liquid Barrier: no
Double-rub resistance: 200,000Ideal useAny seating where smoking is allowed and cigarettes can land
Protection:- Cigarette-Proof: no
- Graffiti-Free: yes
- Bleach-Cleanable: yes
- Liquid Barrier: no
Double-rub resistance: 100,000–250,000Ideal useHotel guest rooms, restaurants, bars, senior living, public spaces
Protection:- Cigarette-Proof: no
- Graffiti-Free: no
- Bleach-Cleanable: yes
- Liquid Barrier: no
Double-rub resistance: 1,500,000Ideal useEvery seat in casinos, hotels, banquet halls, restaurants and bars
Protection:- Cigarette-Proof: no
- Graffiti-Free: no
- Bleach-Cleanable: yes
- Liquid Barrier: yes
Double-rub resistance: 100,000Ideal useWaiting rooms, dining, guest rooms, senior living
Protection:- Cigarette-Proof: no
- Graffiti-Free: no
- Bleach-Cleanable: yes
- Liquid Barrier: no
Double-rub resistance: 100,000–500,000Ideal useHotels, restaurants, healthcare public areas
* Based on Wyzenbeek fabric lab testing. Bars share one scale up to 1.5 million double rubs; striped segments show a tested range.
What Makes Upholstery High-Performance?
There is no standard or certification for “high-performance” upholstery, so most of it gets specified on guesswork. Here’s what it should mean:
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Contract seating requires at least 100,000 double rubs (DR) on the Wyzenbeek test. Every gmf fabrics pattern meets the contract minimum, and the 1.5M Abrasion Series is rated at 1.5 million: the highest rating in commercial upholstery.
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Every contract upholstery must pass the required flammability tests (California TB 117, NFPA 260, and UFAC Class 1), and ours does. No-Burn Upholstery™ goes further: a lit cigarette put out on it won’t burn, halo, yellow, or bubble the surface.
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SUPREEN® textiles provide a total liquid barrier, and RePell™ soil-and-stain protection keeps spills on the surface where they quickly wipe away – perfect for protecting seating in hospitality, healthcare and senior living facilities.
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Soap and water, or a 10:1 bleach solution on bleach-cleanable patterns, should handle everyday cleaning, and lipstick, dye transfer, and graffiti should wipe away without a trace with No-Burn™, Wipe-Off™, RePell™, and SUPREEN™ upholstery.
Specified and Built by the Best
Chosen by all four U.S. casino seating manufacturers and leading architecture and design firms.
Architects & Designers
Let our high-performance fabric experts update you on the latest coated fabrics, textiles, colors, and options, ensuring that the seating you specify is as durable as it is appealing, eliminating high-performance guesswork.
Owners & Operators
Maximize guest enjoyment by providing the most durable and attractive seating, free of burns, stains and graffiti, whether outfitting a new build or reupholstering seating that failed too soon.
Seating Manufacturers
Material that upholsters cleanly on detailed chair designs and lasts as long as your products, plus thread and needle recommendations, stocked colors, dependable lead times and competitive pricing.
How We Work
We know what your seating will go through before it hits your floor, and we’ve spent 80+ combined years on casino floors, in hotels and restaurants, and in design studios.
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Request Memo Samples
Ships same or next dayMemo samples are available for every pattern and colorway. Select any combination of color and pattern, or request a ring set with every colorway of a pattern for your library.
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Fast, Straight Answers
Reply within 1 business dayUsually within a few hours. We’ll review your spec and advise you on what upholstery and abrasion protection is needed for your application, even if it’s something we don’t sell.
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Specify with Confidence
Every pattern contract-gradeEvery pattern meets contract criteria and is priced competitively with other brands for the same or better performance, so your selection gets through purchasing and upholstery failures are avoided.
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Order, Ship & Track
Stocked colors ship same or next dayEvery order ships with tracking, sewing recommendations, and cleaning instructions.
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Recent Upholstery Installations
Testimonials
I was amazed when I watched the No-Burn™ YouTube video. We were thrilled to have beautiful gaming chairs in our smoking areas and not have to worry about cigarette burns. The video is great, and the chairs with the No-Burn™ fabric in our smoking areas are worth every penny!
We made the decision to use gmf’s No-Burn™ due to frequent cigarette burns and small cuts in our existing vinyl upholstery. After nearly 3 years of active use on our gaming floor, burns are essentially nonexistent and we’ve benefitted from significant material and labor savings. The product really pays for itself over time, and I would HIGHLY recommend it.
The folks at gmf fabrics were great to work with. The No-Burn™ color matches exactly with our chairs. You put two chairs side by side, and you can’t even tell the difference.
The No-Burn™ material that we are using on our outdoor patios is great. No more issues with frequent replacement of our patio chairs. The maintenance and housekeeping teams love this product and contribute to the patio looking its best for our customers.
Sean SchianoGeneral Manager of Gaming, Batavia Downs
Sean EmelDirector of Slots, Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino
Will ProvanceSenior VP of Operations, Hard Rock Sacramento
Roger BryantSenior Director, Miami Valley Gaming
THE LATEST
High-Performance Upholstery Fabric News
Performance Upholstery: Built to Last in Hospitality and Gaming Spaces
In a recent TG&H On Air interview, gmf's Richard Friedman explains how performance upholstery is transforming how operators think about durability, cleanliness, and long-term investment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers on No-Burn™, abrasion ratings, samples, and lead times, for the people who specify and purchase high-performance upholstery.
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No-Burn is our exclusive, trademarked coated upholstery, engineered with proprietary chemistry so that a dropped or extinguished cigarette does not burn, halo, yellow, or bubble the surface. Like all contract upholstery, it passes the required flammability tests; unlike any other, it has seven years of use on active smoking casino floors with zero failures and zero claims, backed by independent lab testing. It is also bleach-cleanable, antimicrobial, and carries the Wipe-Off™ finish.
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Yes. Like every contract upholstery, No-Burn™ passes the required flammability tests (California TB 117, NFPA 260, and UFAC Class 1). What sets it apart is that a lit cigarette put out on it will not burn, halo, yellow, or bubble the surface, which standard flame tests don’t measure.
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It depends on what the seat will go through. Smoking casino floors call for No-Burn™; high-contact hospitality and senior living seating for Wipe-Off™ or silicone; the highest-traffic seating for the 1M+ Abrasion Series; and spill-prone or healthcare seating for SUPREEN™. Use the comparison table on this page, or request an upholstery assessment and we will match the fabric to the application.
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Contract seating requires a minimum of 100,000 double rubs on the Wyzenbeek test, and most casino, hotel, and restaurant applications are well served by ratings between 100,000 and 250,000. The 1.5M Abrasion Series is rated at 1.5 million, the highest rating in commercial upholstery, and is priced like a standard vinyl. If a spec calls for two million, we’ll remind you that it doesn’t exist.
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A memo sample is a swatch of a single colorway with specifications on the card. A ring set includes every colorway of a pattern on a cable, with a cover card and a spec card per colorway, sized for a design library. Both are available to contract professionals.
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Our most popular colors of workhorse patterns are in stock and ship the same or next day (Titan black and brown, for example). Other colors run 8 to 14 weeks, on par with or ahead of the industry. Tell us your install date, and we will plan around it.