KATTY FASHION SRL

Their core work

Katty Fashion is a Romanian apparel and fashion manufacturer based in Iași that has used EU-funded research to explore two adjacent frontiers: sustainable bio-based textile materials and digital 3D design tools for the clothing industry. In the NeoCel project they served as an industry end-user, evaluating novel cellulose-derived materials as alternatives to conventional textile inputs. In InKreate they participated in developing 3D digitization and interactive design technology applied directly to the apparel production workflow. Their core value to a consortium is practical fashion-industry grounding: they bring a working manufacturer's perspective on what materials and digital tools actually need to do on the factory floor.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With only two projects running in the same narrow window (2016–2019) and no keyword data available, a meaningful trajectory is hard to establish. What can be said is that both engagements were contemporaneous, suggesting Katty Fashion was actively scanning multiple innovation fronts simultaneously — sustainable inputs on one side, digital production tools on the other. There is no H2020 activity recorded after 2019, so whether either thread was pursued further outside EU-funded projects is unknown from this dataset alone.

Their two simultaneous bets — bio-based materials and digital 3D design — point toward a fashion manufacturer positioning for the sustainable-and-digital transition, though the absence of projects after 2019 makes it impossible to confirm whether this trajectory continued.

How they like to work

Katty Fashion has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never leading a project, which is consistent with an industry end-user role rather than a research driver. Despite only two projects, they accumulated 23 unique partners across 11 countries, indicating they joined well-connected, large consortia rather than small bilateral arrangements. Working with them likely means gaining a Romanian SME voice on real-world apparel production constraints — useful for projects that need industry validation to satisfy EU impact requirements.

Twenty-three unique consortium partners across 11 countries from just two projects is a notably wide network for a small SME, reflecting their involvement in large, multi-partner consortia. No single partner geography dominates from the available data.

What sets them apart

Katty Fashion occupies a rare niche as a practising Eastern European apparel manufacturer with direct experience in both bio-based materials pilots and apparel-sector 3D digitization projects — most fashion SMEs have neither. For a consortium building a project around sustainable textiles or digital fashion tools that needs a Romanian or broader Eastern European manufacturing end-user, they are an accessible and credible industry reference. Their SME status also helps project consortia meet the SME participation targets common in EU calls.

Highlights from their portfolio

• NeoCel
  Their largest-funded project and the only Bio-based Industries (BBI-RIA) engagement, positioning them at the intersection of agricultural biomass research and apparel manufacturing — an unusual combination for a fashion SME.
• InKreate
  Directly addresses digitalisation of the apparel design process through 3D world capture, making it the most commercially relevant project for clients interested in fashion-tech or Industry 4.0 for textiles.