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Textile Innovation
Ep. 143: Sustainability winner
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In this special podcast series, we speak to the winners of the WTiN Innovate Textile Awards 2025.
World Textile Information Network (WTiN) is thrilled to announce the winners of the Innovate Textile Awards 2025. In this special podcast series we speak with the winners of the awards about the challenges, possibilities and successes of innovation within the textile industry.
In this episode, we are joined by Özer Yilmaz, co-founder and technical director at Canapa Paper Technologies. Canapa won the Sustainability Award for its DTpaper Transfer Media for the digital textile printing industry.
The Sustainability Award recognises groundbreaking advancements in chemistry, materials and production processes that significantly reduce the environmental impact of the textile and apparel industry. In this episode, Yilmaz speaks through the evolution of Canapa’s product and technology.
He delves into the importance of sustainable manufacturing and explains how the company endeavours to bridge the gap between performance and sustainability, while creating durable, high-performance, scalable solutions for digital textile printing.
You can learn more about Canapa at canapa.com.tr.
WTiN announced the winners in a virtual ceremony on 5 December 2025, which you can now watch on demand atWTiN.com.