Dear readers,

Thanks for taking the trouble to read our free weekly e-newsletter and for continuing to read our daily news here on our website. As summer draws to a close here in UK (its been a really good one  ), I just wanted to reach out to you to tell you about some of the cool new things that have been happening here at Innovation in Textiles news website.

Earlier this year we re-launched the site with our new responsive site design for a better desktop, tablet and smartphone reader experience. If you haven’t seen the new site yet on your tablet or smartphone, check it out now.

This summer we’ve been fine-tuning the site with improvements to site navigation and general reader experience and importantly we have also been doing some search engine optimisation work to ensure we stay top of the rankings.

Here are some up to date facts and figures about Innovation in Textiles that you may not know:

• 66% of our readers are CEOs and decision makers
• We regularly get in excess of 20,000 readers every month
• Website traffic has risen by 40% in the past 12 months
• We have readers in almost every country of the world
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• All content is free to access, including our 3000+ article archive
• Our FREE website membership gets you our weekly e-newsletter and gives you the ability to set news alerts for your areas of interest in both technologies and markets. You can get your free membership here.

If you like reading Innovation in Textiles, you might also want to think about using the site to promote your products and services to our growing online technical textiles community. Just follow this link to request a copy of our 2015 Media Pack.

Here's what one of our advertisers said about us recently:

“Having advertised on innovationintextiles.com for a couple of years now, Technical Absorbents is more than pleased with the number of referrals received. Out of all online advertising, this content rich website is definitely one of the most effective advertising tools out there." Anita Bemrose, Marketing Executive, Technical Absorbents.

And here's what one of our readers said about us recently:

“As the Development Executive at a major UK garment maker I check the Innovation in Textiles news alerts every day and find them invaluable for keeping abreast of the very latest developments in textiles. It’s important to maintain an open door approach to innovation, as you never know where the next big idea is going to come from. I’ve followed up a number of interesting threads from your news alerts so please keep up the good work! ” Colin Sutcliffe, Technical Executive, Fabric & Innovation Quantum Clothing Group Ltd.

Thanks for listening and please keep on sending us your news, as we do like to keep our readers right up to date with what’s new in the industry. Don't forget to request your copy of our 2015 Media Pack.

Best wishes

Billy Hunter, 

Editor & Publisher, Innovation in Textiles