To support research and development activities in Lodz, the centre of Poland’s textile industry, the Polish government will invest US $ 106 million. The programme could provide the city with a much-needed opportunity to overhaul and modernise its underinvested and troubled textile players. It will be for the development of innovative textiles like hydrotextiles, geotextiles and agritextiles, and their production by local manufacturers. Almost 50 per cent of this fund will be provided by the EU while the remainder will come from by local companies and consortia.
“The funds would be allocated directly to the producers, which will develop the most promising textile technologies,” said Tadeusz Wawrzyniak, the President of the Industry Association. Currently, Poland’s textile producers have an aggregate workforce of 41,000, while the country’s clothing manufacturers employ an additional 73,000 workers.
