For over fifty years Camatic Seating has delivered professional customer support, best quality products and innovative solutions. We are known the world over as the first choice in design, comfort and technology.
Camatic is the first company in Australia to manufacture commercial and venues seating from design concept right through to finished product in a single location. We've developed a national reputation for innovative design and manufacturing excellence.
Throughout the 1980's and 1990's new designs and seating concepts were successfully introduced into the office, theatre and stadium markets, resulting in the company becoming the largest manufacturer of theatre and stadium seats in Australia.
Major international success arrived during the mid 1990's with the company winning world-wide projects such as the refurbishment of the Pasadena Rose Bowl and the contract to supply stadium seating for the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Further major successes ensued both domestically and around the globe.
To facilitate the increasing amount of overseas interest in the theatre, stadium and performing arts seating products, international offices have been established in the United States and Europe. A network of Sales Agents in various strategic parts of the world completes the Camatic team and ensures that Camatic products are presented daily to potential users.
In 2024 Hussey Seating Company added Camatic Seating’s product lines to its portfolio. Learn more at www.husseyseating.com.
During the mid-50s, Brian Fysh (pictured above second from the right) and his four brothers were all young men progressing well in their nominated engineering disciplines.
All five showed an aptitude and passion for engineering and innovation from a young age. This enabled them to build their careers independent of each other, though they collaborated on projects when needed.
Brian Fysh elected to leave BFP Engineering to start his own business in manufacturing with what was known at the time as a “jobbing shop”.
He started out as a repetition engineering business including products such as brass ferrules for Paton’s Brakes in a small white building in Graham Place Camberwell. Brian shifted to what would become Camatic Engineering to Box Hill in the mid 1960’s.
In the late 1960's, the most important and high-profile build of its time was under construction. Camatic founder Brian Fysh was approached to provided aluminium brackets for seating to be installed at the Sydney Opera House.
At the time Camatic was a small engineering firm building a solid reputation for quality and reliability. The Sydney Opera House project kickstarted an endeavour by Camatic into the commercial seating industry.
A significant turning point came for Camatic when it won the contract to supply die-cast seating components for the new Sydney Opera House in the late 1960s. It was the most high-profile project in Australia at the time, and Camatic’s reputation was starting to grow.
About this time, Camatic started to design and supply seating to the industry. As a new player in the market, Camatic was warmly received for offering fresh ideas and a modern approach to comfort.
Major Projects
- Sydney Opera House
- Village Roadshow
In the mid 1970's, Brian Fisher presented a case of innovative seating designs to Village Roadshow owner and director Roc Kirby. Since then more than 100,000 seats have been supplied by Camatic to Village Roadshow.
The longstanding relationship between the two businesses is based on a dual commitment to research and development and an ongoing improvement in seating design.
The deep recession of the 1980s made life tough for all Australian businesses. Camatic persevered and continued to expand into new markets.
With the drive and passion that still existed from the 1960s, Camatic was prepared to give anything ago. As such, they successfully tendered to supply stadium seating for Melbourne’s Olympic Park.
Major Projects
- Melbourne Olympic Park
- Numerous Commercial Venues
With a growing reputation for quality, Camatic not only continued to secure large local projects, but was now winning projects overseas.
Having secured two of its largest projects with the Sydney Opera House refurbishment and Melbourne Cricket Ground, Camatic also supplied all the seats to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Stadium.
Major Projects
- 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Stadium
- Melbourne Cricket Ground
The worlds best performing stadium and arena seat is born. The Quantum Series is first installed at Sydney Multi Purpose Arena (Qudos Bank Arena) for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. The Quantum Series is groundbreaking in its design, being the first fixed seating system in the world to have a flexible beam mount design (Patented by Camatic).
Since 1999 more than 1 million variations of the Quantum Series seating system have been installed across the globe.
The new millennium solidified Camatic as the pre-eminent supplier of seating to the global stadium and the other markets.
With some of the most iconic venues around the world boasting Camatic seats, its reputation continued to provide opportunities in the education, transport and public spacing areas.
Major Projects
- Seattle Seahawks Stadium
- Dallas Cowboys Stadium
- Estadio Da Luz Benfica
- Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
After the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000's, Camatic Seating began a long corporate rebuild and hard pursuit of new innovative seating technology. While battling foreign and domestic economic pressures, Camatic endured and pressed itself as one of the leading commercial seating companies in the world, becoming the dominant seating supplier to Australia, as well as the preferred seating supplier to the NFL and MLS.
Major Projects
- San Francisco 49ers Stadium
- Vue
Camatic seating successfully awarded contract, manufactured and installed product for Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Home of the Atlanta Falcons NFL team. The stadium will later host Super Bowl LIII (53) in February 2019 and the Major League Soccer Cup Final in late 2018.
Hussey Seating Company to Add Camatic Seating's Product Lines to its Portfolio
The acquisition will be limited to Camatic’s intellectual property, trademarks, designs, and tooling on select seat products. Hussey Seating has not purchased Camatic Seating as a whole or assumed any of Camatic’s liabilities. This deal fills a key gap in Hussey’s product line, allowing the company to make rail mounted exterior beam seating, considered to be the de facto standard in new outdoor stadiums. Additionally, it expands the variety of chair options for other markets, including arenas, auditoriums, universities, and places of worship. Camatic’s recent and sudden financial problems are not linked in any manner to the quality and worldwide acceptance of the product lines that are being acquired by Hussey.