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Title: Italy's Calze G.T. rebuilds packaging, power and product mix as EU rules reset the cost base

Casaloldo, Lombardy, Italy, 8th Sep 2026 - In hosiery, capital expenditure almost never makes headlines. A different yarn, a faster knitting machine, a new sleeve around the product: on their own, each looks like a rounding error. Put together over several years, they are how a mid-sized manufacturer defends a margin it cannot defend on price.That is the logic behind the investment cycle now running at Calze G.T., the privately held Italian producer of the Relaxsan and Farmacell lines. Founded in 1984 in Casaloldo, in the province of Mantua — one of the world's densest hosiery clusters — the company makes graduated compression stockings, posture products, massaging garments and body-wellness wear, and sells them into more than 65 markets.The spending has gone into five buckets: cutting plastic out of packaging, building recycled materials into new products, replacing knitting machinery, funding R&D on yarns and construction, and hiring. None of them is a headline item in isolation. Together they describe a company converting four decades of process know-how into a cost and compliance position it can hold.The packaging switch, and the regulation behind itThe most visible change is the one a customer holds. Calze G.T. has re-engineered almost its entire retail pack range, replacing conventional plastic sleeves with recycled paper.That is not a procurement swap. Packaging on a compression garment has to survive production, warehousing, distribution and shelf life without compromising the product, which meant a technical development cycle before the changeover could be signed off. Shipping cartons have moved in the same direction, sourced from FSC-certified suppliers — a chain-of-custody standard that documents where the raw material came from and how the forest was man...

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