WTIN unveils Digital Textiles Channel at FESPA

18 May '15

4 min read

World Textile Information Network Ltd (WTIN) launched a Digital Textiles Channel, the first additional service in a new analytics strand, delivered by WTIN.com, an established global platform for textile industry insight and news.

“Investors in the digital textile printing market now have a dedicated intelligence resource, delivering deep market data and analysis on an ongoing basis and accessible on-demand via a sophisticated web portal,” a WTIN press release said.

WTIN Analytics also includes the markets channel, delivering price and market data on natural and man-made fibres, yarns and fabrics.

WTIN which is demonstrating the Digital Textiles Channel for the first time at FESPA 2015 in Hall 7 booth G1; aims to give its subscribers confidence in their business decisions related to the digital-textile market.

“This includes whether investing in expansion or acquisition, developing new products or launching into new territories,” WTIN added.

One key feature of the channel is the Digital Textiles Market Tracker, a tool that allows subscribers to view statistics on the volume of digitally printed fabric output from various angles.

The Tracker provides production information at a global, regional and country level, while also identifying the main end-use areas in each.

“Installed machine capacity is also analysed for each territory, based on machine categories related to productivity,” WTIN informed.

The Channel’s data will be renewed regularly to allow subscribers to see which countries are enjoying the strongest growth and thus which may have the greatest potential for development.

According to WTIN, each layer of information has accompanying analysis, providing a summary of the key movements and trends within the market.

On publication of each new data set, subscribers will have access to an in-depth review article, highlighting the key changes for the latest period and providing a summary.

The market-tracking data is compiled in partnership with leading industry manufacturers and using a proprietary algorithm to determine the volume of fabric being produced.

In addition, every month WTIN will release to subscribers a ‘deep dive’ report on a selected country, who will then have the opportunity to vote on the next country to receive detailed scrutiny.

“This will allow subscribers to better understand developments in key markets that are of greatest interest to them,” it explained.

The Channel’s deep analytics features will be complemented by the full range of news, insight and features enjoyed by subscribers to Digital Textile magazine and the WTiN Effects Channel.

Key features of the Digital Textiles Channel include; a Digital Textiles Market Tracker that will allow subscribers to break down and view the size and shape of the digital textiles market and monitor its developments on a half-yearly basis.

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