Mariusz and Anna Kurczewski (still students at the Technical University of Lodz) open a knitting shop. At first in their children’s room and later in a garage on Grunwaldzka Street in Lodz. On the fence they hang a board with a proud inscription “MACHINE KNITTING”.

They do the production themselves using manual machines. After a few months electric machines and the first employees appear.

In the following years they changed the location several times due to the constantly increasing demand for space for the constantly growing plant. In order to meet the enormous demand of the 1990s, the company continues to buy new machines and increase the number of employees. „…We buy machines from bankrupt cooperatives and production plants left over from the previous system. We hire professionals from those factories, learn knitting and business…” – they jointly recall the beginnings.

The second decade of the 21st century saw the continued development of the company’s own clothing brand and stable knitwear production. In the second half of the decade, a small (but still) return to domestic production is noticeable. Many brands want to have, at least in part of their collections, the Made In Poland label. It seems that the situation is stabilizing. It only seems so because… the beginning of 2020 is coming.

COVID 19 pandemic, production stoppage, high uncertainty. “…We use the temporary halt in knitting production to invest in the production of specialist protective clothing for medical services. We learn new things, get certificates. Of course we also sew the famous “cotton masks”, but we concentrate on protective clothing. By the end of the year we will have supplied medical units with over 200,000 pieces of specialist clothing…”