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Who makes your order
Twenty-four years of sublimation, one workshop in Romania
We are not an agent and not a print shop with a sewing table in the back. Sportswear of Tomorrow has been making custom sublimated sportswear since 2002, and rashguards.shop is the part of that business built for water.
What we actually do ourselves
Your artwork is prepared on our die-lines, printed onto transfer paper, pressed into the fabric, cut panel by panel, sewn, checked and packed. That whole chain runs inside our own European operation, which is why we can tell you a delivery date and hold it, and why a reorder in November matches the run you took in March.
What we do not do is sell to consumers. Every order goes out under someone else's name — a gym, a charter fleet, a dive centre, a swimwear label. You will not find our logo inside your garment unless you ask for it.
Why sublimation, and why it matters for water
Printing that sits on top of a fabric fails in exactly the conditions our customers work in: salt, chlorine, UV, sand, mat friction and industrial washing. Dye-sublimation avoids that failure mode entirely. Under heat the ink turns to gas and bonds into the fibre, so there is no layer left on the surface to crack or lift. Stretch the garment and the print stretches with it.
It also removes the usual cost penalty for good design. Screen printing charges per colour, so brands simplify their artwork until it is cheap. With sublimation, a four-colour crest and a full photographic wrap cost exactly the same. Only quantity moves the price.
How we are set up
- Founded in 2002, based in Aiud, Romania, inside the EU customs union.
- Italian performance fabrics from mills that supply the swimwear industry, not generic stock jersey.
- Pattern development in-house, so a custom cut becomes a permanent block you can reorder against.
- One contact per account. The person who quotes you follows the order through the workshop.
- B2B only, quoted ex-VAT, shipped worldwide with the documents your broker needs.
The sustainability claim, in plain terms
The base fabric is spun from certified recycled yarn made from post-consumer plastic waste. That is a supply-chain fact with paperwork behind it, not a marketing adjective, and it is the version you can safely repeat to a buyer who asks follow-up questions. We would rather give you one claim you can defend than five you cannot.
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