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Nearshoring: Poland Becomes a Leading Supplier of Digital Print for EU Textile Companies

Sustainability is a hot topic in textiles and apparel. One move that is set to help reduce the carbon footprint for the industry is reshoring—producing goods closer to the point of need—which reduces transportation costs and can include establishment of microfactories utilizing digital rather than the often more wasteful analog manufacturing processes. Find out how and why Poland is leading the reshoring charge in Europe in this guest article provided compliments of textiles expert and WhatTheyThink contributor Debbie McKeegan.

Thursday, October 07, 2021

(Image courtesy of Texintel)

By Simon Daplyn, Manager, Product Marketing, Sun Chemical

Sustainability is a huge and growing focus of the printing industry at large and for garment printing businesses in particular. With textile manufacturing widely considered to be the second most polluting industry globally (after petrochemicals), the sector is facing more pressure than ever to improve its environmental credentials.


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