European Funds

Production investments and digitalization of the Duende enterprise as an opportunity to strengthen its competitive position and ease the effects of regional transformation

1. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a twin-needle lockstitch machine for light and medium sewing
2. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a twin-needle lockstitch machine for heavy sewing
3. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of two single-needle lockstitch machines
4. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a buttonhole machine
5. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of an overlock machine
6. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a button-sewing machine

7. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a fusing press
8. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of an ironing table
9. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a disc knife
10. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a blind-stitch machine
11. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a snap-attaching machine
12. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a coverstitch machine

13. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a bartack machine
14. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a zigzag machine
15. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a cutting table with a layering device
16. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a Digitizer (for digitising paper patterns)
17. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of computer software for garment construction
18. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a plotter

19. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of garment construction equipment
20. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of computers
21. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of a computer for the pattern maker
22. Setting up a sampling workshop – purchase of tailoring accessories

In the broadest sense, the project's target group will be people benefiting from the project's results, including entrepreneurs and residents of the Just Transition Area designated in the Just Transition Territorial Plan of the Łódź Voivodeship — in particular employees of the Bełchatów energy complex who are at risk of losing their jobs as a result of the discontinuation of lignite mining at the 'Bełchatów' brown coal mine and the reduction of employment at the Bełchatów Power Plant due to a change in the economic profile of the entity (cessation of conventional energy generation). The direct beneficiary of the support will be the Applicant's enterprise. An entity classified in the SME sector, with its registered office in the Łódź Voivodeship — the city of Piotrków Trybunalski, located within the Just Transition Area.

The project will allow the creation of a professional sampling workshop within the Applicant's enterprise, specialising in the design, sampling, and prototyping of clothing in the spirit of eco-design. The investment in production diversification covers the purchase of fixed assets and specialised software for garment construction. Creating the sampling workshop within the enterprise will allow the creation of at least 4 new jobs, and will also contribute to significant process changes in the enterprise.

The process change will be a nationwide innovation, thanks to which the Applicant's enterprise will gain the ability to create clothing in line with the idea of sustainable, socially responsible fashion. The elements of the process change will be: digitalisation of the garment construction process, and the creation of technical capacity allowing clothing to be designed in a way that minimises production waste and enables the handling of waste that cannot be avoided.

Another element of the process change will be the introduction of the 6Rs to the enterprise's operations:

• rethink – analysis of possible recycled elements and deadstock (fabric remnants normally destined for incineration),
• recycle – use of recycled garment trims,
• repair – offering customers a repair service for damaged or worn garments,
• refuse – rejecting the fast-fashion model, creating individualised collections, and designing in line with eco-design principles,
• reuse – reusing garment trims at the end of a garment's life cycle.

Project value: 511 302,92 PLN

European Funds contribution: 357 715,06 PLN

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