Good news from leather goods. In the first six months of 2019, revenues coming from French tanning industry increased by 9.1% on annual basis. Bags have been driving such positive accomplishment, despite a difficult scenario: as reported by the Conseil Nationale du Cuir (the National Leather Council), France’s leather goods manufacturers also augmented their turnover, […]
No residues. Zero emissions. Optimizing costs and saving resources. The new re-tanning agents they succeeded in obtaining are “pretty much free of charge”. German Lanxess, a chemical giant, designed an innovative project to support, develop and drastically change the management of residues coming from the tanning process. This is the reason why the multinational corporation […]
On the one hand, they are supporting industry. On the other hand, they have been completely shutting down a few clusters. In India, leather industry professionals live and work in a complicated and rather contradictory context. Fostering footwear India’s government announced they are going to support footwear industry by creating some corporate Social Responsibility funds […]
The focus remains green: if what we are experiencing now is the environmental revolution of various industries, then everybody expects the improvement to be made in this area
Innovation Training (July 9th-15th) brought european tanners to find out the research excellence of Boston and New York. It seems like a far away world, but it isn’t
Some among the protagonists of the Innovation Training tell their experience. At Lineapelle (October 2-4) the Innovation Square is laying the foundation for the future
Leather and its processing are intrinsically disruptive, because they are circular by definition. and Lineapelle 97 presents an area specifically dedicated to this virtue explains wh
Are you looking for a transversal constant to the history of humanity and its evolution? Nothing could be simpler. It's leather. Here is a brief, exciting gallery of extraordinary archaeological finds that best demonstrate this dimension and confirm its intrinsic durability
The 4th edition of the world leather congress took place in the big apple this past july 16th. A concept that summarizes the shared opinion of all those that made statements there: the identity and value of leather need a more actual form of narration, one that is lateral and disruptive
There are two opposing and converging thrusts in the luxury leather goods sector. On the one hand, for Italian entrepreneurs third-party work has been increasingly important for years. On the other hand, designer labels and large groups, especially French, invest in vertical integration and internationalisation
There is no risk of disinvestment for italian manufacturers controlled by french groups. However, subcontractors do not have as many certain points. The point of view of Mario Ortelli (Ortelli & Co) and Flavio Cereda (Jefferies International)
End of August, 2019: in Biarritz, luxury sits at G7 table. François-Henri Pinault (patron of Kering), presents the fashion pact, the coalition of sustainable luxury, as per invitation by Macron. But “someone” is missing
“We are sorry, but chrome is no longer strategic”. Lanxess sells its chrome chemicals division to china-based brother. Will anything change in the market ?
From slaughterhouses to livestock farms, the french meat market is reducing the number of players. A potential threat to the leather segment
A case, not as strange as it seems. If anything, it is symptomatic of a certain mediatic medium. That, when talking about leather, to look for new (forcibly green) at all costs. Defining it as green, even when it is not
European capital of culture in 2019, millenary city with a long history regarding leather. welcome to Matera, and to our journey looking for its disappeared tanneries
PETA accuses Horween Leather, an historical American tannery, of being co-responsible, or moral instigator (if you prefer), of the fires that have hit the Amazon rainforest. The animal rights association, which attended (and is attending) fashion weeks in London, Milan and Paris with hostile mobilisations against leather, bought a vertical posting on a billboard in […]
