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Nearby the Herttoniemi metro station in Eastern Helsinki, Finland, printing machines are buzzing and about a million meters of fabric is annually crowned with Marimekko’s bold prints. In fact all Marimekko’s fabrics sold by the meter get their prints at the company’s own fabric printing factory in Helsinki. Also the fabrics used in the printed […]

In mid-May, history was made at the Marimekko’s textile printing factory in Helsinki, when a biodegradable fabric made from birch cellulose with the Ioncell solvent method went into the printing machine. The printed fabric was woven in Lohja at Luksia (the Western Uusimaa Municipal Training and Education Consortium) and in the Marimekko textile printing factory […]

Marimekko was awarded for its timeless design in the Design Challenge competition at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit dedicated to sustainable fashion on Thursday 12 May 2016. This year the competition had three winners instead of one, as Marimekko, the Swedish fashion brand Filippa K and Danish Mads Nørgaard shared first place. Other brands that participated […]

This spring Marimekko took part in an international leadership-focused training program for students called CEO x 1 Day. The program is aimed at searching future leaders and giving them an opportunity to get to know the everyday life of leaders on a very concrete level. The talented students selected through a challenging recruitment process were […]

Leather is a versatile and sensitive material which can be tanned, or in other words protected, in various ways. The purpose of tanning is to make the leather long-lasting and easily modifiable material which can be used for various purposes. Different types of tans also create a different kind of look and feel. Marimekko’s spring […]

Next Sunday 24 April marks again the international Fashion Revolution Day for a more responsible garment industry. Fashion Revolution Day honors the memory of the workers deceased in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh three years ago. The sustainability of operations throughout our supply chain is very important to us and […]

Marimekko works with approximately 10 cut-make-trim suppliers in Lithuania. In 2015, Lithuania accounted for approximately 40 percent of the total production of Marimekko’s fashion products. The fabrics sewn in Lithuania are usually made in Italy or Turkey and some of the fabrics are printed in Marimekko’s own printing factory in Helsinki, Finland. One of the […]

Marimekko’s textile printing factory located in Helsinki, Finland, plays an important role in the company’s production as every year approximately million meters of fabric is being printed there. In fact, Marimekko’s printing factory is the most significant textile printing factory in Finland. Even though the products, such as clothes and bags, get their final form […]

As an international company Marimekko also has a global supply chain. In China, Marimekko’s clothing, such as knitwear and silks, are produced by five contract manufacturers. Some manufacturers use more than one sewing factory for their production. One of our most significant manufacturers is Newtex, located in Jiaxing near Shanghai. The company specializes in high-quality […]