31 Jan 2019 Bulgaria, ALC shuts down 3 plants and fires 1,600 employees: it used to produce coatings for the automotive segment
14 Jan 2019 Honda patent “smart functional leather”, a smart leather to collect and convey information
30 Jul 2018 Automotive industry keeps up: Faurecia goes faster in the half-year period, Adient speeds up in South Africa
11 Jun 2018 Automotive Interior Expo 2018, Stuttgart: market and innovation meet, while talking about leather and machine learning
11 Jun 2018 Russian Miratorg invest in a tannery “to supply top car companies”, reports Tass press agency
14 May 2018 Automotive: Adient sales go up in the quarter (+9%), yet profits go down (-25%). Lear is GM’s “supplier of the year”
14 May 2018 Lear are ready to close Canadian plant after non-stop strike (with collateral damages for FCA)
7 May 2018 Automotive Lear’s quarterly revenues speed up thanks to synergy between interiors and innovation systems
2 May 2018 US car business keeps up as one vehicle out of two takes leather seats. Credit for success belongs to luxury and more
2 May 2018 Automotive: Faurecia speed up in the first quarter (+9,3%), GST encourage designers to believe in leather, “more sustainable than synthetics”
2 May 2018 Stahl to picture the next car in the years to come: leather is going to be light, sustainable, handy and connected
9 Apr 2018 Faurecia and BMW sign a six-million-car super contract, the biggest ever in the history of the French company
3 Apr 2018 The Telegraph looks down on leather: “Cars with no leather interiors are better”. But UK Leather Federation put it in its place: “Ignorant”
26 Feb 2018 Faurecia speeds up in the automotive, as 2017 revenues increased by 8,6% and profits went up by 34%. A new factory is due to open in the USA
19 Feb 2018 GST soap opera is over perhaps, as Court acknowledges new ownership after 167 million dollars bid
5 Feb 2018 Automotive goes up and down. In 2017 Lear’s performance was “amazing”, whereas Adient’s profits crumbled down in the quarter
22 Jan 2018 Auction for GST Autoleather is off, as a consortium of creditors buy out the company for 172 million dollars
22 Jan 2018 New Adient Aerospace to make flying seats after joint-venture deal between Adient and Boeing
18 Dec 2017 Hermès Sur-Mesure customizes luxury, as they provide leather for car, yacht and business jet interiors