“What if we resolved it ourselves?”: In Bangladesh, tanners put their candidacy for Savar’s CEPT’s management forward

Tanneries’ owners active in Savar Tannery Industrial City, in Bangladesh, wish to manage the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CEPT, in the image taken from rmgbd.net). The proposal was advanced a few days ago, during a meeting between the entrepreneurs and government representatives, among which was also present the Minister of Industry Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Apex […]

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Chaos in India: Jajmau tanners threaten “extreme consequences”, as GST “forces” footwear manufacturers to buy from the Chinese

“We either take it to the streets or we are dead”. The forced-stop imposed to Indian tanneries in the Jajmau region, in Kanpur, has definitely put local entrepreneurs on their knees and is creating a situation filled with extreme hysteria. The measure was introduced this past December to allow for a “remediation” of the Gange’s […]

RESEARCH | New ideas and eco-sustainability

We are always ready to face challenges and do research. We developed our patent in 2014: the first prototype of leather with injected feathers. The proper combination between research and design. Leather tanned with metal-free substances is transformed thanks to the injection of feathers from a soft duvet thermos-sealed to the piece of leather. A […]

CULTURE CLUB | Tanneries + Time + The Exhibition + The Reading

Tanneries Riccardo Luchini Painted like that, perhaps, we’ve never seen nor admired them. They are tanneries, as Tanneries is the original title of the series, portrayed by Riccardo Luchini and the subject of a double exhibition session last year. First at Casaconcia, the artistic space of Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale in Ponte a […]

INNOVATION | Quality, replicability, rapidity

Quality, replicability, and rapidity of samples are becoming more and more determining factors for the competitiveness of a tanning business, which is facing the tough dynamics of today’s marketplace. Being able to accurately reproduce production lines means allowing technical operators to investigate new configurations in less time and with clear advantages: Energy saving, as well […]

The technological structure

Mass customization promises to liberate the production process from the seasonality of collections and at the same time freeing the whole fashion chain from the “stock” risk, supplying tailor-made footwear to clients. “Now is the time”

Digital manual

Traditionally associated to manual know-how, the process of the leather-textile-footwear chain is undergoing change under the force of the fourth industrial revolution. A European project explains which types of professional figures the industry needs

THE CHARACTERS | Like Icarus

The story of Raf Simons and Calvin Klein, which lasted just over two years, shows in an disruptive way an uncomfortable truth: aspiring to luxury can sometimes be very, very dangerous

FORCED REVOLUTIONS | Clarks lost identity

Something went wrong. Very grand disappointments. Few months were enough for Clarks to realize that “production levels and cost objectives were not going to be reached in the short-medium term”, to cite the words used by the historic English brand, which announced in January 2019 that it was shutting down the production site, effective in March. Thirty-five employees fired and 10 relocated within the company. What’s happening?

LEATHER IN EVERYDAY LIFE | Home, sweet Home

New York, July 16th 2019. Date and location of the fourth edition of World Leather Congress, event planned by the American tanners of LIA, USHSLA (USHide and Leather Association), under ICT’s (International Council of Tanners) hat, and with the concrete support of UNIC – Italian Tanneries and Lineapelle. The main Topic: leather in everyday life

SUSTAINABLE VALUE | Circular investment

An important step that shows how much Italian tanners believe in themselves. UNIC – Italian Tanneries acquires through its subsidiary Lineapelle, 2% of Sprintitaly’s capital, a special purpose acquisition company “that will incorporate Sicit via merger”

CHRONICLES FROM ASIA | Chinese syndrome

Beijing’s leather industry closes a very challenging and opaque 2018. The time spent at APLF confirms the mood is cold and concerned, with little desire (or possibility) of taking risks. And so a wait-and-see policy triumphs

Kering scores +17.5% in the first quarter: Gucci “averages” out (2.3 billion, +20%), Bottega Veneta continues to suffer (-8.9%) 

Kering answers LVMH’s performance. The two giants continue to increase their ownership of the luxury marketplace and the data published in these hours by the multinational enterprise, run by François-Henry Pinault, shows just that. The holding has, once again, used its reference brand as its calling card: Gucci. In the first quarter of 2019, Kering grew its sales“slightly […]

Large numbers inside and outside the chain. And a lot of “new” leather: Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone filled up

Keeping up, day after day, with what Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone had to offer wasn’t easy, also because the event (more than ever before) took over the entire city. But at the same time, it was very exciting to be a part of what was happening. First, because running around the city of...

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