Search Results for: leather

Tannery
  • 6 Mar 2018

Craft The Leather at Lineapelle94: the winner is Heleen Sintobin, a young British fashion designer. Her creativity was the best

The contest was on its sixth edition, and quality was very high (as usual). Last week, during Lineapelle94, Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale, the consortium of Italian vegetable tanned leather, exhibited the prototypes made by 10 young fashion designers (coming from 9 international schools), who participated in the Craft The Leather creative contest. […]

Fairs
  • 26 Feb 2018

Lineapelle94 edition: leadership confirmed, French buyers increase, innovation on top. Style and market trends

Several qualified clients showed up, “not only the traditional ones, including the luxury fashion companies as well as the most prestigious brands, but also new players, small and medium sized, who search, at Lineapelle, for reliable partners in terms of product quality, outstanding service and innovation”. Lineapelle, “the trade business experience for global fashion & […]

Automotive
  • 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

French Faurecia multinational corporation, a top player in the industry of leather for car interiors and components, in the automotive sector, keep growing and making investments. After getting so close to buy out, at auction sale, American GST competitor (their bid was the second best in fact), Faurecia made public data about 2017 financial statement. […]

Fairs
  • 22 Feb 2018

Exhibitors and style at Lineapelle94: craving for sparkle, light and colour. Patent leather as well, “peculiar though

Glitter, layers, iridescence, prints, pearls and mirrors. Summer 2019 is bound to be marked out by search for light, sparkle and fantasy. Such are the guidelines drawn by exhibitors, who presented their trend prompts at Lineapelle94. Iridescent and glittering finishings, also applied to reptile, silkscreen, laminated and opalescent leather, with bright colours, not too vibrant […]

Tannery
  • 22 Feb 2018

At Lineapelle94 Italian leather and Stazione Sperimentale (the Italian Leather Research Institute) make a deal: innovation and leadership

At Lineapelle94 Stazione Sperimentale delle Pelli delle Materie Concianti (SSIP), the Italian Leather Research Institute, and Italian tanning industry have signed an agreement to invest in research quality, aiming at the leadership of Italian leather. “Over the last year we implemented 10 research projects, mostly focused on environmental sustainability” – summarized Edoardo Imperiale – chief […]

Fairs
  • 22 Feb 2018

Footwear at Simac Tanning Tech: innovation 4.0, 3D printing, nanotechnologies. And much more

A developing kaleidoscope. A wide and valuable range of technological opportunities to drive footwear into a new dimension, depicted by ASSOMAC (the Italian association of machinery manufacturers for the leather industry) as “the age of 4.0, that is, the fourth industrial revolution based on the interconnection, between machinery and leather industries, and the exchange of […]

Fashion show
  • 22 Feb 2018

Women’s Fashion: Gucci’s “hospital” show stuns Milan, still looking at the product though

On the first days of Milan Fashion Week the spotlight was on Gucci’s fashion show, held yesterday. The presentation in a surgery, designed by Alessandro Michele, shocked everybody: gloomy atmosphere, aseptic hospital colours, fake decapitated heads or fantasy animals carried by male and female models. Other than the eerie mood, many interesting leather articles paraded […]

News
  • 21 Feb 2018

Lineapelle94 day one was “dynamic”: exhibitors are expecting “peak visits” today

“The first day was good”, remarks Nada Molon, administration manager at David System tannery. Lineapelle94, the most important international exhibition for leather, materials and accessories, on the agenda on February 20-22, yesterday opened its stands to welcome exhibitors and buyers of the fashion industry. Molon’s positive feelings matched with the overall satisfaction at Kara’s tannery […]

Fairs
  • 21 Feb 2018

Visitors at Lineapelle94 talk about the market, floating between “stability and caution”. Products look for quality

Stability and caution. In such terms, visitors at Lineapelle94 describe the development of the business markets throughout 2017. “Sales keep going, without a bang though”, points out the general manager of an Italian shoe factory, “mostly” oriented towards international markets. “The current phase is still flat”, remark two more visitors, who are some representatives of […]

Training
  • 21 Feb 2018

Amici per la Pelle: keep voting, both at Lineapelle94 and on Facebook. Prize-giving ceremony on the agenda tomorrow

Today is the last valid day to vote for works presented at Amici per la Pelle, a national contest promoted by UNIC (Unione Nazionale Industria Conciaria, the Italian Tanners Association), together with Lineapelle. The prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow morning, at 11am, in the Service Centre Auditorium Hall, at Fieramilano Rho. Over one thousand […]

Sustainability
  • 21 Feb 2018

We do not fear rip-off copying and frauds: ICEC’s services to safeguard design and know-how

To protect the specific date of an innovative product advertising and, likewise, to safeguard the date of corporate know-how ownership. ICEC, the Institute of Quality Certification for the Leather Sector, presented such services, which can be mutually integrated, during a seminar held at Lineapelle94. They have developed some tools to protect samples, design and corporate […]