Search Results for: leather

Tannery
  • 23 Apr 2018

EU approves a method, suggested by Cotance and UNIC, to calculate tanning environmental footprint: it is now available for companies

Very good news for the leather industry. Yesterday the Steering Committee, in charge of the experimental phase of the PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) project, supported by European Commission, along with some representatives of the member countries’ governments and other parties, approved jointly the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) suggested by Cotance (the European Confederation […]

Magazine Archive
  • 16 Apr 2018

Number 04

CHINA, YEAR 2018: THE TRANSITION CONTINUES. THE LOCAL LEATHER VALUE CHAIN CHANGES AND IMPOSES A NEW APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL ONE. OPPORTUNITIES REMAIN (ESPECIALLY FOR LUXURY), BUT CUSTOMERS ARE NO LONGER HOW THEY USED TO BE, AS RISKS. FROM APLF HONG KONG NO SURPRISES, BUT CONFIRMATIONS ONLY

Tannery
  • 16 Apr 2018

PETA ask publishers to “amend dictionaries by writing that synthetic is leather as well”. Join our campaign to stop them

“Words are important”. Unbelievably, such is the beginning of the petition submitted by PETA to ask publishers worldwide to amend their dictionaries and therefore include in the definition of “leather” synthetic fabrics that aim to copy leather itself. Yet we use the same strategy to respond to the animal-rights association and remind them that their […]

News
  • 9 Apr 2018

US leather industry ran steadily in 2017, as their overseas turnover reached 2,08 billion dollars, just 40 million more compared to 2016

A year of business stability for the US leather industry. Export of made in the USA tanning raw material, semi-finished and leather reached 2,08 billion dollars, thus increasing by around 40 million compared to the year before. Such are the data provided by USDA (the United States Department of Agriculture), then reported by trade journals. […]

Automotive
  • 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”

A fire-fight (or a media-fight), that see the Telegraph’s snobbish editorialist being put in its place by the UK Leather Federation. The first sign of trouble presented itself when, on the UK-based newspaper’s 4-wheel part in its lifestyle section, appeared an article titled: “Leather has no place in modern cars”. The author, Ed Wiseman, starts […]

Chemical
  • 3 Apr 2018

Stahl shows it hand: “This is how we will help Kanpur’s tanning industry reduce its water usage”

Almost a million Euros (900,000 Euros, to be exact), in cash funds and investments in new facilities, to accompany Kanpur’s leather district in the path to sustainability, both social and environmental. This the pledge made by Stahl, multinational company in the chemicals’ business, made this past November along with 6 partners (Non-for-Profit Solidaridad). The program […]

Fairs
  • 26 Mar 2018

At Obuv Moscow visitors slow down, while focusing on prices, made in Italy and transparency

“Manufacturing abroad requires transparency over the origin of your product. Perhaps we’d better specify that more closely and let customers know where our footwear comes from”. Federica Felicini, from Giorgio Piergentili shoe factory, speaks out at Obuv Moscow while wrapping up the clash between companies: on one side, those who entirely carry out their manufacturing […]

Footwear
  • 26 Mar 2018

Vietnam aims to export leather for 20 billion dollars, in 2018: “We’ll also enhance our tanneries”. Yet innovation…

Not just finished products, most of all, but also, more and more, supplying materials, leather in particular, thus enhancing the national tanning industry. According to Diep Thanh Kiet, vice-President of LEFASO (Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbags Association), Vietnamese tanneries might be able to provide 60% of leather for shoes and bags by 2030. They currently […]