Ep. 32: Smartex

In this episode of The WTiN Podcast, we talk to Gilberto Loureiro, CEO and co-founder of Smartex – a technology company that has created a solution to spot textile defects in circular knitting machines. Loureiro grew up surrounded by the textile industry. Many of his family members work as machinery operators, mainly in the north of Portugal, and he himself used to help operate the machines and inspect the fabric in his summer holidays. He then went off to university where he studied phy...