Search Results for: leather

Chemical
  • 2 May 2018

At ICDA Member’s Meeting UNIC meets again chromium manufacturers to set cooperation and synergies

Readiness to liaise and mutually collaborate, with regard to market trends and provisions, looking at communication as well. UNIC (Italian Tanners Association) headed for Paris to participate in the Member’s Meeting (which took place on April 24-26) promoted by ICDA, International Chromium Development Association. Since 1984, ICDA, a worldwide organization, have been “representing, supporting and […]

Chemical
  • 2 May 2018

Acquisitions also affect labs, as Eurofins Scientific buy out BLC Leather Technology Centre

Last 17 April Eurofins Scientific Multinational Corporation announced, through their CPT (Consumer Product Testing) division, the buyout of BLC Leather Technology Centre, a British laboratory dedicated to chemical tests for the leather industry. In doing so, Eurofins Scientific, headquartered in Luxembourg and currently running over 400 labs located in 44 countries, have reinforced their portfolio […]

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. […]