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Insight4 Feb 2025

Heimtextil’s 2025 interior textiles trends

Heimtextil 2025 ended with full exhibition halls, 142 participating nations, another increase in exhibitors and visitors as well as with top satisfaction ratings, says event organisers Messe Frankfurt.

FibresWeavingDesign & Trends

ScalingIntelligence31 Jan 2025

Using Sri Lankan tea waste to create dyes

T-Hues is a natural dye project forged from a collaboration between industrial laundry specialist Dynawash and the Sri Lanka Institute of Nano Technology (SLINTEC).

EffectsCircularity

Insight30 Jan 2025

AAFA shares predictions for 2025

Steve Lamar, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), shares his insights and predictions for the year ahead in the apparel and footwear space with Otis Robinson.

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Circularity

Insight30 Jan 2025

The problem with the UK’s AI blueprint

Otis Robinson, digitalisation lead & editor at WTiN, explores the UK’s blueprint to turbocharge artificial intelligence (AI), its worsening digital skills gap and the lacking incentives in industries to pursue digital careers.

FabricsApparelIndustry 4.0

Insight29 Jan 2025

The promise of AI in colour

Otis Robinson speaks with Professor Stephen Westland of the Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour, about colour management, the historical use of neural networks and the AI winters that halted progress through the 20th century.

FabricsDyeingIndustry 4.0

Commercially readyIntelligence22 Jan 2025

Combining natural dyes with ultrasonic tech

IndiDye Natural Colour, from Shanghai-headquartered company IndiDye, is a series of natural dyes made from biomass.

EffectsSustainability

Insight22 Jan 2025

Outperforming toxic dyeing and finishing

Otis Robinson speaks with Martin Flora, president of global business development at Green Theme Technologies (GTT) about its building of the next generation of cleaner, more efficient fabric dyeing and finishing processes.

FibresFabricsDesign & Trends

Sector Analysis14 Jan 2025

Digitalisation ushers huge changes for 2025

Positivity around digitalisation and Industry 4.0 steadied between the first half (H2) and the second half (H1) of 2024, reports Otis Robinson.

FabricsApparelDesign & Trends

Commercially readyIntelligence8 Jan 2025

Turning carbon emissions into black pigments

Boston, US-based Graviky Labs produces black pigment from carbon emissions sequestered from the atmosphere.

EffectsSustainability

Intelligence18 Dec 2024

Digital Transformation Survey: Brands & retailers

WTiN reveals the results of its Digital Transformation Survey, conducted between 2023 and 2024, exploring adoption, drivers, investments, ROI and barriers for brands and retailers. Otis Robinson, digitalisation lead & editor, reports.

FabricsApparelCOVID-19

Innovation Outlook16 Dec 2024

Innovation Outlook: Dyeing Innovations

Exploring the latest bio-based, waste-derived and auxiliary dyeing technologies.

FibresYarnsIndustry 4.0

Intelligence11 Dec 2024

Digital Transformation Survey: Manufacturers

Otis Robinson, digitalisation lead & editor, reports.

FabricsApparelCOVID-19

Insight11 Dec 2024

4 ways the US election will impact manufacturing

WTiN looks at the ways the US and global textile & apparel manufacturing sectors might be affected by the President-elect’s comments.

FabricsApparelCircularity

Topic Report18 Nov 2024

Topic Report: Traceability

A close look at traceability, related regulations and developments in the textile & apparel sector

ApparelFabricsIndustry 4.0

Topic Report18 Nov 2024

Sample: Topic Report - Traceability

A close look at traceability, related regulations and developments in the textile & apparel sector

ApparelFabricsIndustry 4.0

Insight7 Nov 2024

How will AI benefit digital textile printing?

Digital textile printing, like many other sectors within the textile and apparel industry, has not gone unaffected by the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) technologies.

Digital PrintingApparelIndustry 4.0

Insight31 Oct 2024

Finding AI initiatives that work in fashion

Otis Robinson speaks with Fashion AI Hub, about artificial intelligence (AI), bottlenecks to adoption and the development of a programme capable of reducing the effort needed to find and test AI initiatives that work in fashion.

ApparelIndustry 4.0

Insight14 Oct 2024

Digitalisation confusion risks paralysing SMEs

Otis Robinson speaks with Donna Edwards from Made Smarter about digitalisation hesitance in the UK’s textile manufacturing sector, digital knowledge acquisition and the impacts of the organisation’s regional digitalisation programme.

FabricsApparelIndustry 4.0

Insight10 Oct 2024

Free EU regulation compliance masterclass

Digital Clothing Limited, a material digitalisation, product performance modelling and digital product passport (DPP) specialist, has launched its Fashion Big Data Platform for Sustainable Design (FBD-SD) Masterclass.

FabricsApparelIndustry 4.0

Topic Report3 Oct 2024

Topic Report: Material Innovation

Analysis of material innovation developments and trends in the textile & apparel sector

ApparelSportswearCircularity

Topic Report3 Oct 2024

Sample: 2024 Topic Report - Material Innovation

Analysis of material innovation developments and trends in the textile & apparel sector

ApparelSportswearCircularity

EmergingIntelligence25 Sept 2024

Research to develop thermoregulation standards

In January 2024, textile technologists Comfiknit and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) commenced a three-year collaborative research project.

ApparelSportswearResearch & Development

Topic Report23 Sept 2024

2024 so far: Key trends and developments

As industry reaches its half-way mark through 2024, WTiN examines news, themes and developments in several key markets.

Digital PrintingSmart TextilesCompanies & Finance

Insight18 Sept 2024

WTiN Weekly Review: 18 September 2024

Every week within our News Hub, we publish the latest news released across the textile & apparel supply chain.

Digital PrintingNonwovensEvents

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