“From order to order, we may have to adapt,” says Eduard Modreanu, the company’s technical lead. Katty Fashion is part of an EU-funded project called R3GROUP, which aims to help firms boost the resilience of their supply chains against disruptions caused by climate change and other factors. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of global supply chains. As manufacturers weighed the possibilities of reshoring jobs in the US, many found that bringing the supply chains back to America wouldn’t be cost-effective, and instead contemplated moving factories to territories less impacted by tariffs. Climate change is already disrupting global supply chains, for instance by exacerbating droughts in Taiwan, where water supplies are crucial for semiconductor manufacturing.