A job that lasted over two years and a half. A victory not simply (very) important, but also particularly significative. UNIC – Italian Tanners and Cotance, convinced the General Leadership of the European Union’s Environment, to intervene and clarify the limits imposed on PFOS “in leather and covered leather”. The problem The acronym stands for...
Maison Soler creates a new line of ostrich leathers. The tannery, which define itself as “artisanal”, adds the product to its catalog at the request of French ostrich farmers themselves, who, within borders of the Hexagon, no longer find possible customers for their raw hides. “In France, no one is tanning any more – says […]
The first explanation, the simplest one, is that green and red are Lineapelle97 colours simply because they filled the fair spaces and areas. In fact, at Fieramilano Rho, on October 2-4, all of the exhibition setups had green nuances. Conversely, Trend areas, which are the place where Lineapelle Fashion Committee pinpoints and selects the style […]
Opening to new ideas, with other teams in the same brand, looking at new products coming from suppliers, opening to new sources of inspiration. Liz Alessi is Coach Material Development vice-President: she is the one who selects materials for the collections of accessories created by Tapestry group’s flagship brand. While addressing the audience at Lineapelle […]
It has been working since last August. It is due to run at full speed by the end of the year. We are talking about Marchino, a new manufacturing project implemented by Conceria Antiba in the town of Ranipet, India. The project Let us tell about its name, to begin with. Graziano and Paolo Balducci, […]
Conveying the values of material, and one’s own work, to the industry partners, reaching final consumers in the end. US leather is about to revise its own standards, while addressing a weak and, at the same time, complicated business scenario, which requires new certification tools. That is why the US leather industry adds communication and...
Trump’s government set a number of customs duties, which amount to 7.5 billion euros overall, on annual basis. Starting from next 18th October, such duties are going to affect European commodities imports considerably. The WTO (World Trade Organization) endorsed such measure, imposed in retaliation to financial support supplied by European Union to Airbus industries, from […]
Alpa and Repico have reached a global partnership agreement, which will be involving all of the company facilities. In doing so, the companies, leaders in the manufacturing of chemicals for the leather-tanning industry, keep pursuing a strategy to “reinforce their own technical and commercial positions on international scale – they announced in a press release […]
UNIC – Italian Tanneries and LWG, which stands for Leather Working Group, have signed today an agreement protocol, at Fieramilano Rho, during Lineapelle97 final day. The agreement Fulvia Bacchi, UNIC General Manager, and Deborah Taylor, LWG manager, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, therefore starting an important factual partnership. “We must – pointed out Fulvia Bacchi […]
Activities, requests, trends, heads up. Lineapelle97 (on the agenda at Fieramilano Rho, on October 2-4) first day proved to be rather hectic, while day two is analytical. “We worked hard, and several visitors turned up”, emphasizes Alberto Caneva, managing director of Faeda tannery, based in Montorso Vicentino. “We are happy, most of all, about visitors’ […]
Sustainable efforts carried out by tanneries, committed to outlining processes to reduce consumption of water and chemicals, have to deal with some limits imposed by current technologies. “Conversely, nanotechnology may enhance efficiency and bring it to standards which are not feasible at present – illustrates Paolo Netti, Professor of Industrial Bio-Engineering at Federico II University […]
The subject also concerns usefulness to some extent: talking about tanning raw material, what is the enhancing value of efforts to optimize its traceability, with regard to materials and, consequently, manufacturers and retailers? They discussed several topics during the workshop “Sustainability Partnerships in the Leather Industry: Focus on Raw Material”, arranged by UNIC – Italian […]
Such is the first input: “We all care about the same problem: to get leather across”. Here is the second input: “We must focus on talking about leather and its value”. Both of them date back to last June. At that time, during UNIC – Italian Tanneries annual assembly, leather industry (both in general and […]
Visitors can admire twelve Naga-Banten, exhibited at hall 11, coming from the Tokyo Leather Fair: its latest edition, held in May 2019, has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the event. Fire fighters The Naga-Banten models, on display at Lineapelle, are part of a collection of 50 cloaks recalling fire fighters uniforms, in the ancient […]
The future is not just an imaginary assumption. The future is an outlook that needs a daily build-up, systematically, developing new projects and planning new fairs and exhibitions. Therefore, if we look ahead, we are going to do the groundwork for our prospective actions. The same applies to Lineapelle and the organization of its fair […]
The industry of leather and materials for fashion joins Lineapelle 97th edition, while dealing with several inputs. On the one hand, the market is facing a complicated economic situation, owing to a number of factors, inside the fashion industry, and other external elements as well (for example, among others, trade wars currently underway). On the […]
Innovation is not something running in sealed, airtight segments: brands laboratories on one side, academies on the other and research institutes on their own. “There are many problems, which affect the supply chain, about materials, around creative issues as well”, pointed out JalaJ Hora, senior vice president of Burberry Raw Materials, Product Engineering and Quality […]
The Leather (re)cycling Exhibition presented an afternoon event yesterday. Lineapelle97 circular laboratory, where visitors may see and experience the multiple activities with which leather industry ends its own valuable cycle. The reasons for the project “Here we wanted to show and present the main outputs about the recycling of waste materials coming from processing. Aiming […]
Plain colour varnish, creased though. Pale shades matched with fluorescent sparkles. Satin metals. Winter 2020/21 is bound to be a season heavily marked by contrasts. Between flawless and imperfect, simplicity and contemporaneity. Starting from such aesthetic discrepancies, hides will benefit from an original balance. This is the mood outlined by the Fashion Committee and presented […]
His name is Francesco La Rosa. He is an Italian contemporary artist, and he is very good at a very peculiar technique: micro carving. He does not need any paintbrush, as he makes use of chisels and knives. As regards canvas, well it is not a traditional one. It is black leather. La Rosa, alongside […]
