MCL News & Media

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MCL News & Media is a leading media B2B platform for the global textile and apparel industries.

MCL has a wealth of experience spanning over 20 years in B2B magazine and on-line publishing, which brings together expert analysis, in-depth comment and the latest news to a range of different industry textile and apparel professionals across the globe.

Our products include the market leading print and on-line magazines: Ecotextile News, Knitting Trade Journal, Sustainable Nonwovens, our new publication for technical textiles: T.EVO, The Green Guide to ITMA and EcoComposites.

We are also the publisher of Textile Standards & Legislation, which was formerly known as the Eco-Textile Labelling Guide.

We also publish market leading reports on environmental issues that impact the textile industry such as Detox Deconstructed which analyses the Greenpeace campaign, the Sustainable Sourcing Map, and more recently Closing the Loop – the first publication to examine how the global textile sector can transform from a liner to a circular business model.

Our expertise in cotton and sustainability is second to none, and we have published two major reports on this subject: The Insider’s Guide to Cotton & Sustainability and most recently, the ground-breaking Cotton Horizons study.

MCL continues to work in partnership with a number of textile trade and retailer-led organisations such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, the ZDHC Group, and the Sustainable Fashion Academy.

Our UK-based company is young, innovative vibrant and growing – we recently adding the new jobsite Careersintextiles.com to its portfolio.

We are also the brand owner and of the Planet Textiles event on sustainability, which successfully launched in Hong Kong in March 2010 and in 2015 took place in Shanghai, China, alongside the giant Intertextile Shanghai Apparel fabrics event.

In May 2016 we will produce the event with the SAC in Copenhagen.

We are based in our wholly owned and recently converted eco-friendly offices in Normanton, Yorkshire, UK which is situated at the heart of the northern UK transport network.

MCL is proud to be a member of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA).