Corin

In 1996, in Pabianice, a textile town on the southwestern edge of Lodz, a family firm called Corin began making bras. The Polish company, still family-owned, now makes bras, briefs, swimwear and simple tops, all produced in Poland, and it marked its thirtieth anniversary in 2026.

Eleven hours for the first bra

Corin's own history begins with a small detail. The first bra the company made, in 1996, took eleven hours to produce. That figure says a lot about the start: a new workshop, a small team, and a product that has dozens of components and very little tolerance for error.

The setting helped. Pabianice sits in the old Lodz textile district, a region that built its 19th-century fortune on cotton mills and still has a deep pool of garment workers, fabric merchants and machine mechanics. Corin grew out of that ecosystem rather than importing one.

The business has stayed in the family. Mariusz Hanczka is named as a co-owner, and Corin describes itself as a family company. Forbes Poland has listed it among the most valuable family businesses in the Lodz region for five consecutive years, up to 2025.

A note on the founding date

Some earlier accounts gave Corin's founding year as 1991 and placed it in Lodz itself. The company's own records say 1996 and Pabianice, and this entry follows them.

The thermal camera study

Corin's most distinctive project is scientific rather than commercial. In 2010 the company started a research program called "Perfect Bra", or "Idealny Biustonosz" in Polish. Its partners were the Lodz University of Technology and a mother-and-child health institute, and the medical side was led by Professor Marek Zadrozny of a breast disease clinic.

The method was thermal imaging. Researchers used heat-sensing cameras to record changes in skin temperature while women wore different bras. Where a bra presses too hard, circulation changes and the skin temperature shifts, so the images show pressure points that a fitting-room mirror cannot. The team compared those readings across different fits and construction variables.

Corin says the results were folded into how it designs and grades its bras. The project also drew outside attention, featuring in a Discovery Channel program on everyday objects and the inventions behind them. Few lingerie makers of Corin's size have published anything comparable.

What Corin makes

The range is organized into four lines: Fashion, Basic, Classic and Swimwear. Bras make up most of it, from lightly lined everyday styles to underwire bras in lace and satin, with matching briefs. Swimwear follows the same cup construction.

Earlier descriptions billed Corin as a full-bust specialist selling mainly D to H cups, the territory of the supportive full-cup bra. The company's own site does not present itself that way, so this entry does not either.

At the other end is a one-size line. The Kylie 770 model is designed to fit sizes S to XL in a single garment, a soft, stretch construction that drops the usual band-and-cup grid entirely.

Awards and exports

Corin collects Polish industry awards steadily. The Virginia bra was named a "Diamond Among Bras" in 2018, and the same year the company received a medal for export achievement. It has repeatedly won Superprodukt consumer awards and was named a Modern Technology Leader in 2014.

Exports have grown alongside the home market. Corin sells across Europe and has looked further, taking part in Expo 2025 in Osaka. For readers comparing Polish bra makers, Gorsenia and Ewa Michalak are the closest neighbors in this encyclopedia. Corin's own line is that its underwear is "exclusive and healthy" and made in Poland, and the thermal camera work is the evidence it offers for the second word.

Last updated October 7, 2026