Coats Digital's GSDCost and GSDQuest Chosen by Poland's UNIFEQ Europe

Poland's UNIFEQ Europe has invested in Coats Digital's GSDCost and AI-powered GSDQuest to standardise garment costing, improve sewing-floor productivity and speed up tender preparation, initially at its Kętrzyn plant. B2B Marketplace reported the investment on October 14, 2026.

How UNIFEQ Europe Will Use GSDCost

UNIFEQ Europe is a Polish family-owned manufacturer founded in 2011 that makes military and uniformed-services apparel, tactical equipment and individual ballistic protection. It supplies armed forces and uniformed services across Poland and Europe, with recent contract wins including the Swedish Police and the armed forces of Sweden and France. Its annual turnover exceeds PLN 240 million, and it was recognised among Poland's fastest-growing companies in the Forbes Diamonds 2025 ranking.

At the Kętrzyn plant, GSDCost will establish standard minute values for core uniform styles, support line balancing and capacity planning, and provide the foundation for a new performance-related bonus scheme for production operators. GSDQuest will generate fast, AI-powered first-pass Bills of Labour from garment images. The company will also use GSDCost to support the redesign of its bonus scheme, giving operators a transparent basis for performance-related rewards.

Piotr Kowalik, chief executive officer of UNIFEQ Europe, said: "UNIFEQ has grown from a start-up into a supplier of uniforms, equipment and ballistic protection to armed forces across Europe, and today the order book of our sewing plant in Kętrzyn exceeds our current capacity." He added: "GSDCost and GSDQuest will help us create a stronger connection between our engineering, production and commercial activities, while giving us a scalable foundation for the future."

Hakan Canbolat, regional sales manager for EMEA and N. America at Coats Digital, said: "GSDCost gives UNIFEQ a trusted, internationally recognised standard for measuring time and performance, while GSDQuest brings the speed and intelligence of AI to the costing process."

Coats Digital's GSDQuest Launch and Partnerships

Coats Digital launched GSDQuest in September 2025, an AI-powered garment costing tool that analyses product images to auto-generate a standardised Bill of Labour, removing manual input from the costing workflow, according to akta.pro company records. The company is a Microsoft Gold partner for application development and integration, using Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and Microsoft 365 technologies for its SaaS solutions. Its VisionPLM solution is the first bidirectional PLM extension offered through Adobe Exchange, enabling integration with Adobe creative tools. GSDCost's fair wage tool incorporates global fair living wage data provided by Fair Wage Network.

Coats Digital's Recent Deployments

In September 2026, China's Orient Rongheng partnered with Coats Digital to deploy FastReactPlan for production planning, starting in Jining, China, before expanding to Bangladesh, B2B Marketplace reported. In August 2026, Coats Digital launched GSD RealMotion, an AI-powered solution that uses computer vision to convert shop-floor video into structured motion-by-motion GSD method studies, B2B Marketplace reported. In July 2026, Humana Apparels Pvt. Ltd., a Bangladeshi outerwear manufacturer, achieved operational improvements after implementing GSDCost, replacing manual Excel-based costing with standardised SMV-based planning, B2B Marketplace reported.

UNIFEQ Europe's Next Steps

UNIFEQ Europe's next phase will include extending GSDCost into its sample room and tender pre-costing process, using GSDQuest for fast first-pass costing of new styles. The company also plans to use GSD standards to support the training of new operators and provide a common benchmark for its external production partners.