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Expert intelligence and research to solve your toughest challenges and open new opportunities across the textile & apparel supply chain. Independent, and trusted since 1881.

Across your industry

01 / Start with the decision

What do you need to be more certain about?

Explore the questions and find the evidence and practical outputs to support your next decision.

Brands & retailers

What innovative materials should we look to integrate into our product development?

Compare alternatives on more than an initial price. We help frame the trade-offs between supply resilience, capability and market conditions so your team can investigate the right options.

What the work can give you

  • A comparison of sourcing routes and assumptions
  • An assessment of the evidence needed from suppliers
  • A research brief for the next due-diligence step

We agree the scope and deliverables around your question.

Explore the evidence ↓

02 / Evidence before commitment

Learn what we find. Consider what it changes.

Explore the subjects behind your next decision, with examples from our published research.

Digital textile printingPublished analysis · H1 2026

Examine the operating conditions behind digital print investment.

The industry finding

The question has moved from capability to operating economics.

WTiN’s digital printing analysis describes growing scrutiny of throughput, ink cost per square metre, colour consistency, downtime and return on capital. A technology launch tells only part of the story for an industrial print business.

Joseph LinkDigital printing analysis · pages 10–13

A question this raises for your team

Which production conditions would make the investment work?

The next comparison should test the operating assumptions: the work a system would handle, its cost in that setting and how reliably it can meet customer requirements.

Inspect the source
“throughput comparisons, ink cost per square metre, colour consistency across sites, machine downtime and return on capital are questions that must be posed.”
WTiN, 2026 so far: Key trends and developments in the textile & apparel industry. “Digital print mood cools as energy crisis grips”, Joseph Link, page 11.

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This is an industry-wide finding. The economics of a specific machine or site need their own assessment.

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Source excerpts retain their original authors and page references. These dated research examples illustrate questions to investigate; they are not findings about your organisation.

03 / Why WTiN

Independent intelligence. Since 1881.

The World Textile Information Network, WTiN, has served the global textile & apparel supply chain since 1881. Our history is the starting point for research shaped around the decisions textile & apparel businesses face every day. Today, our expert analysts work across materials, technology, product development, supply chain transparency, compliance and risk.

Analyst-led. Evidence-backed.

We combine specialist expertise, proprietary data and industry relationships to map markets, materials and technologies, test assumptions and inform decisions. Our analysts lead the work. AI helps them find and connect relevant evidence faster.

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  • 140+ years of service
  • Proprietary data
  • Verification
  • Research-led partnership
  • Risk assessment
  • Consultancy
  • Global reach
  • Market facilitator
  • Innovation & development

04 / Work with us

Choose the right support for the decision ahead.

Find the question, commission the answer, build a programme around a decision, or keep the analysts alongside you all year. Each route starts from where your team is now.

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You have a problem

Question scoping

One conversation with an analyst to find the question behind your decision, written up as a brief.

£1,900You have the question

Research session

2 weeks of the analyst desk on your question, worked through live with your team.

£8,900You need a programme

Consultancy

Research built around a decision, with primary interviews, data you keep and a fixed scope.

Quoted on scopeYour questions keep coming

Research-led partnership

Ongoing intelligence across your priorities, with the analysts working as part of your team.

Two sessions a year

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Data tools

Explore the data products and tools relevant to your work. Access is agreed as part of your partnership.

Fibre Hub

Fibre prices, market movements and comparisons.

Scouting Hub

Scout the emerging companies and technologies across the textile value chain.

Digital Textiles

Digital textile printing markets and proprietary operating data.

Patents

Explore patent evidence and technical developments.

Trends

Connect emerging themes across WTiN intelligence.

Pricing follows the scope. We agree team access, research involvement, deliverables and timing before you commit.

Need to explain the case internally?

We are considering a WTiN partnership to give our team a shared evidence base for textile industry decisions. The case should identify the decision we need to improve, the evidence we are missing and the support required. We will agree scope, outputs and cost before committing.

05 / How a research session works

How a research session works

A collaborative process, led by our analysts and shaped by your feedback.

Explore a research session: scope, fee and next steps ↗

  1. 01

    Bring a question

    Tell us what you need to decide and the context behind it.

  2. 02

    Analysts do the work

    We investigate the agreed question and examine the evidence.

  3. 03

    Play it back

    We discuss the findings together in a research session.

  4. 04

    Give feedback

    Challenge the findings and tell us what needs further exploration.

  5. 05

    Agree the next scope

    Decide together what useful work should follow.

From the analysts

Recent analysis from WTiN. Partnership access applies to restricted articles.

Intelligence12 Nov 2026

Digital Textile Market Review 2026 Update

The combined rated print speed of the world’s digital textile printers almost doubled between the end of 2021 and the end of 2025, as more machines were installed and newer models replaced slower ones, yet the industry produced only 14% more fabric in 2025 than in 2021. WTiN’s revamped Market Tracker shows a market that has added production capacity faster than its order books have grown, and suggests where the next round of investment will and will not go.

Insight11 Nov 2026

US$50m loan to grow Bangladesh polyester creation

The Asian Development Bank has invested in Modern Syntex Limited’s Modern Energy-Efficient Polyester Chips Manufacturing Project in Bangladesh. WTiN asks why the bank’s support is significant.

Podcast10 Nov 2026

Ep. 161: Building global policy matrixes

WTiN speaks with Maria Luisa Martinez, VP public affairs at Global Fashion Agenda (GFA).

In our partners’ words

The World Textile Information Network (WTiN) has been with us since we began commercialising our Horizon 2020 research, helping us introduce the Fashion Big Data (FBD) platform to the wider textile industry. Winning the Manufacturing & Supply Chain Innovation Award at the Innovate Textile Awards 2024 was a proud milestone for our team. WTiN’s coverage has also created valuable connections: Jeanologia first discovered us through one of their articles and became a collaborator in our Digital Product Passport (DPP) Use Case Programme.

We share a commitment to making DPP adoption practical and accessible. WTiN has helped us connect the people and expertise behind the wider Fashion Big Data Digital Product Passport (FBD-DPP) ecosystem, supporting knowledge sharing around technology, testing and certification, and the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society’s International Group Standards (TBIS-IGS). It has been a pleasure working with the team, and I look forward to what we can achieve together.

Tim Jun LiDirector · Digital Clothing Limited
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