28 Jan 2019 Premium A tale about designers who want to save Shironameshi, Japan’s thousand-year-old tanning still practised by one person only
28 Jan 2019 Going on a tour around Robin Hood’s tanneries: visit Nottingham medieval underground baths, and have a party there
28 Jan 2019 Appalling 2018 ends very negatively (-30,8% in December) for Brazil’s leather industry, whose foreign revenues slump by 24%
28 Jan 2019 Aero Mexico signs agreement with ELeather. Experts remark: “You can’t say that leather fibre board works better than leather”
28 Jan 2019 Russia’s Siberian new tannery RK Altai is (almost) ready to start, but opening is put off again
21 Jan 2019 India’s Council for leather exports claims too optimistically: “We are going up”. They forget about Kanpur disaster though
21 Jan 2019 Pan African Leather: a connection between the UK and Nigeria to tackle, thanks to leather, youth unemployment
17 Jan 2019 Acquisitions in Turbigo: Bonaudo takes over Conceria Cafra, specialised in top-end liners
17 Jan 2019 50,000 tons of fish hides are thrown away in France every year: The start-up Cuir Marin wants to safeguard the byproduct and tan it
9 Jan 2019 Bangladesh, Savar’s tanneries closed for strikes: the old workers were left out of the minimum wage increase
17 Dec 2018 In the name of Spanish entrefino quality: 8 European top tanneries, engaged in the SELAMBQ project, take stock after one working year
17 Dec 2018 “Eco-leather is just a terrific marketing expedient”, says popstars’ fashion designer Jean-Claude Jitrois
10 Dec 2018 Camera Arbitrale Pelli kicks off the new season today in Milan, while appointing the Management Board and the Arbitrators Designation Committee
10 Dec 2018 Chanel say stop to exotic leather: “We do not use it anymore because we can hardly find reliable suppliers”
3 Dec 2018 Brussels crowns UNIC/Lineapelle, as Pompeii’s restoration project wins award for cultural patronage
3 Dec 2018 Protectionism is still alive, as Belarus stops (again), for 6 months, export of hides, skins and leather. Wondering which ones…
3 Dec 2018 In Uttar Pradesh, India, authorities are forcing tanneries to close. Footwear to go south as well
3 Dec 2018 Poletto Leathers keeps up: after joining LSEG European rankings, they participate in Borsa Italiana’s Elite programme
