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Intelligence
Digital Textiles
- What is Intelligence?
- Digital Textiles
- Performance Textiles
- Protective Textiles
- Smart Textiles
- Textile 4.0
What is Intelligence?
Our Intelligence channels offer market intelligence, technical reports and deep-dive analysis of key industry motivators, technologies, materials and impactors. WTiN Intelligence provides detailed analysis of important high-growth areas of the textile and apparel industry. WTiN’s expert team of analysts and network of researchers go beyond the what and the why to look at what might come next, what businesses need to contend with in an evolving global supply chain, and how they can take advantage of the opportunities on the horizon.
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Industry insight, market information, and the connections you need to examine and evaluate market trends in the roll-to-roll digital textile printing sector.
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Roland introduces new DTG offering
By Joseph Link
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Adapting to market challenges with DTG printing
By Jessica Owen
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FESPA’s go ahead confirms face-to-face demand
By Harry McMullen
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Biodegradable dye-sublimation fabric
By Harry McMullen
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Market and technical intelligence essential to the activewear and athleisure textile and clothing industries.
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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3D printed chain mail transforms under pressure
By Jessica Owen
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Committing to sustained innovation on sustainability
By Raihana Sayeeda Kamal
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Unique polymer chemistry adapts to wearer’s movements
By Jessica Owen
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In-depth intelligence about textiles used in outdoor sportswear, footwear and equipment, as well as textile applications that require protection from external environments - such as workwear and PPE.
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Sensor detects if firefighter gear is safe
By Jessica Owen
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PFAS-free mono-material fabrics promote recycling
By Jessica Owen
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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In-depth intelligence on the materials, manufacturing technologies and application areas of smart textiles.
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Sensor detects if firefighter gear is safe
By Jessica Owen
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New technologies disrupt digital health sector
By Victoria Nickerson
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3D printed chain mail transforms under pressure
By Jessica Owen
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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Providing investors and decision makers in the textile and apparel value chain with in-depth analysis and insight into the digitalisation of manufacturing processes and smart business models.
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Increasing the traceability of wool
By Otis Robinson
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Start-up creates system to enable fabric handling
By Otis Robinson
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Fashion and Climate Change Symposium: 10 key highlights
By Jessica Owen
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Traceability survey highlights need for collaboration
By Otis Robinson
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WTiNews
- What is WTiNews?
- Fibres & Yarns
- Knitting & Weaving
- Effects
- Technical Textiles
- Nonwovens
- Textile Economics
What is WTiNews?
Our WTiNews channels take a look at global textile and apparel industry innovation, businesses, technology and markets, provided by WTiN’s in-house team of journalists. WTiNews is set apart from basic news content as it discerns the importance of changes and developments in the supply chain. WTiNews doesn’t only tell you ‘what’ has happened, it also covers impact, the bigger picture and the industry’s response to trends, events and more.
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A viewpoint on both natural and manmade fibres and yarns, as seen through the eyes of manufacturers, growers, processors and spinners, with a mix of technical articles, analysis and product innovation news.
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Wool Market Report - 24 September 2021
By Nitin Madkaikar
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NCWSBA Australian Wool Market Report - 24 September 2021
By Paul Deane
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Roland introduces new DTG offering
By Joseph Link
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Unique polymer chemistry adapts to wearer’s movements
By Jessica Owen
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Analysis and manufacturing technology updates for the global fabric manufacturing industries and their supply-chain partners.
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Executive Market Report - 20 September 2021
By Nitin Madkaikar
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Microfibre shedding test is imminent
By Jessica Owen
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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News, analysis and technical information on the important realms of dyeing, finishing, printing (both screen and digital) and coating.
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Roland introduces new DTG offering
By Joseph Link
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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Adapting to market challenges with DTG printing
By Jessica Owen
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Biodegradable dye-sublimation fabric
By Harry McMullen
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News, market insight, analysis and product development updates from the fast-growing markets in technical textiles, covering all applications and end uses.
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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Sensor detects if firefighter gear is safe
By Jessica Owen
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Unique polymer chemistry adapts to wearer’s movements
By Jessica Owen
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Unrivalled coverage of the manufacture and uses of engineered polymer and fibre ‘non-textile’ products.
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Oerlikon promotes production processes at INDEXTM20
By Harry McMullen
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Sandler focuses on alternative raw materials at INDEXTM20
By Jessica Owen
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INDA announces 2021 RISE Innovation Award finalists
By Jessica Owen
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Top fibre innovations from Dornbirn GFC
By Jessica Owen
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Your instant window on the global raw materials prices, trade movements, resources and manufacturing costs that can affect the profitability of your textile products.
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NCWSBA Australian Wool Market Report - 24 September 2021
By Paul Deane
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Executive Market Report - 20 September 2021
By Nitin Madkaikar
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Wool Market Report - 17 September 2021
By Nitin Madkaikar
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Wool Market Report - 24 September 2021
By Nitin Madkaikar
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Journals
- Digital Textile
- International Dyer & Finisher
- Knitting International
- Nonwovens Report International
- Textile 4.0
- Twist
More Details All JournalsDigital Textile is the world’s only journal dedicated wholly to textile applications in the rapidly developing field of digital printing.
More Details All JournalsInternational Dyer & Finisher is the unrivalled world leader in the delivery of vital sector-specific information for textile dyers, finishers, printers and coaters.
More Details All JournalsKnitting International is uniquely placed to give a worldwide perspective to manufacturers and retailers in the ever-more globalised and diversified knitting industry.
More Details All JournalsNonwovens Report International (NRI) keeps you up-to-date with the latest developments across the nonwovens market. With its team of technical and industry experts, NRI makes use of its close ties with associations, research institutes and market-leading businesses to bring you international reporting that covers areas all over the world.
More Details All JournalsPreviously known as IoTex, the newly relaunched Textile 4.0 journal delivers vital insights into the burgeoning transformation of the textile and apparel value chain. It covers a spectrum of content, from technologies enabling the personalisation trend to supply chain transparency, the latest in fabric gripping robotics, smart clothing and much more.
More Details All JournalsTwist is read across the textile supply chain, from early stage processors to retailers, with its primary focus the provenance of fine natural fibres such as wool, cotton, silk, linen, cashmere and mohair, as well as rare and speciality fibres.
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- Talking Threads
- Podcast
- Webinars
Meet the Team
The WTiN Digital Textiles Intelligence service is provided and powered by a core team of textile experts. They form a small part of the wider WTiN Intelligence team, which produces in-depth analysis across virtually all areas of the textile industry.
Your Digital Textiles team is:
Madelaine Thomas
Madelaine is Content Lead across all Intelligence and WTiNews channels. She holds a First Class Hons BA in International Journalism from Liverpool John Moores University and an MA in International Relations from the University of Leeds.
+44 (0) 113 360 9917
Joe Link
Joe is Channel Lead of Digital Textiles, and Editor of the Textile 4.0 and International Dyer & Finisher journals. He attained a BA (Hons) in Journalism at the University of Huddersfield and gained experience through internships at ITV Yorkshire and the Huddersfield Daily Examiner. During this time, he developed his filming, editing, interviewing and writing skills. Following has graduation in 2015, Joe went on to work full-time within the B2C local press before joining WTiN. His current role includes sourcing and producing a range of digitalisation-focused content for WTiN's multiple media platforms.
+44 (0) 113 360 6616
Otis Robinson
Otis is Channel Lead of Textile 4.0, focusing on industry digitalisation. He has several years' experience writing for the publishing industry, specialising in reportage, features and copywriting. Following the completion of a BA Hons in English from the University of Hull and an MSc in Journalism from Leeds Beckett University, Otis developed a keen interest in reporting on exciting innovations and the ongoing digitalisation of the textile industry.
+44 (0) 113 360 9681
Harry McMullen
Harry is WTiNews Deputy Lead at WTiN, creating and producing content that explores the rapidly changing digital landscape of the textile industry. He has also recently completed his MA in Journalism at Leeds Trinity University. Harry has an interest in video production and in 2020, received a national NCTJ award for a short video series he created about his hometown of Bradford.
+44 (0) 113 539 4381
