UK tanneries are still open, and thus they continue operating normally. But we have been advised of one that has closed until this issue has been resolved. Others are winding production down towards closing as orders have fallen off, so there will be more shutdowns in time. As for the rest of the world, many […]
Authorities are forcing tanneries to withdraw raw hides from slaughterhouses. And Argentine tanning risks a short circuit. On Saturday March 28th, the secretary of the Federación de Industrias Frigoríficas Regionales Argentinas (FIFRA), Juan Javier Peralta, posted on Twitter the letter addressed to a group of Argentine tanneries by the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad […]
Commitment and solidarity. Companies stand up against Covid-19 outbreak through charitable activities and donations. The same goes for Italian leather industry. In fact, in the region of Veneto, Rino Mastrotto Group, a leather-tanning group, decided to provide a tangible contribution to support the struggle against the virus. Their donation amounts to 500,000 euros. The donation […]
Italian leather industry strives to support the struggle against Coronavirus outbreak. In the region of Veneto, Gruppo Mastrotto publicly announced a meaningful solidarity project. Primarily, they supplied a 100,000-euro donation in aid of the Fondazione San Bortolo Onlus, a non-profit organization. On top of that, they also implemented a health insurance for their employees. The […]
Indeed, JBS achieved a record-breaking performance throughout 2019. Looking at the financial statements of Brazil’s meat giant, revenues from sales amounted to about 51.7 billion US dollars. They therefore increased by 12.6% compared to 2018. We are talking about the highest earnings ever. In the fourth quarter of the year, JBS managed to make around […]
Italy’s leather goods will shut down temporarily, due to the legislative decree passes by the government on March 22, 2020, considered to be “a necessary measure”. Assopellettieri’s CEO, Danny D’Alessandro, confirmed it, explaining that “this decision comes after some companies of the segment had already decided to close down autonomously. The challenge will be to […]
Now, at the time of writing, tanneries can still operate in Austria, within the limits imposed by the authorities for precautionary reasons. And there are still orders to be processed. The reaction of Austrian leather to CRV is there. But dark clouds are gathering on the horizon, due to market uncertainties and restrictions on international […]
First the collapse in exports. Now the stop to a new tannery. Duties imposed by the Zambian government on exports of exotic leathers are having disastrous effects. Last December, the Zambian Crocodile Farmers Association launched the first alarm. Now the costs of those choices are paid for by the development of a new factory for […]
Standard&Poor’s downgrades Aston Martin. A very difficult news for the British automaker. And that puts the entire bailout plan at risk. Just now that Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has acquired 16.7% of Aston Martin and Chinese Geely has shown interest. Standard & Poor’s downgrades Aston Martin On Tuesday, March 17th, Standard&Poor‘s revised its assessment of […]
After a long thriving period, Brazil’s livestock and farming industry has started slowing down. In fact, Covid-19 outbreak is hindering meat, produced by the South American giant. The most important groups in the country are thinking about, possibly in the future, the closure of slaughterhouses. Prudence demands for it (as much as the market feedback). […]
INESCOP are striving to revolutionise the footwear production model. In fact, at Elda Technology Centre (in the province of Alicante) they have just inaugurated a digital experience and smart integration system that applies to shoe manufacturing process. The plant consists of a sort of central supercomputer, which coordinates several hardware and software technologies employed in […]
2019 and present time for Prada has consisted of an inevitable path between the “great progress” (of last year) and the (current) emergency situation. After all, analysts had forecasted a revenue of 3.21 billion euro and operating income of 306 million euro (according to Refinitiv). While 2019 was archived with 3.226 billion euro in net […]
Fashion calls for conversion. Objective: to fight Covid-19. Specifically: to find companies able to temporarily move their production axis to packaging masks (and not only) necessary to avoid the spread of the infection. The president of Confindustria Moda, Claudio Marenzi, has made at the call to all the companies in the sector. Fashion launches the […]
Leather tows Italy’s economy. ItalyPost research center run a research study on Italian companies that registered the best performances during the period 2012-2018. The list is made of 1,000 companies divided into groups based on their results. At the top of the ranking are the “20 big” companies that have revenues between 500 million euro […]
After five years, Mulberry’s creative director, Johnny Coca, is leaving. For Mulberry, it is the end of a five-year creative period. An end that, among other things, it comes close to the celebrations for the first 50 years of the brand, scheduled for 2021. The English brand has announced that it has already started the […]
In the leather-tanning district of Santa Croce sull’ Arno treatment plants are running at full speed. Waste processing, operations and customer service, supplied to companies, do not stop. While issuing an official press release, l’Associazione Conciatori (the tanners’ association) of the Tuscan municipality made a public statement about it at the end of a web meeting […]
We interviewed (as mentioned in the first lines of the text) Fabrizio Masoni, owner of Masoni Industria Conciaria, on February 19, 2020. The day we meet Fabrizio Masoni and his wife Federica is the first of the last edition of Lineapelle. We are in Fieramilano Rho, it is February 19 of a year, 2020, which […]
Italian leather does not stop. UNIC – Italian Tanneries raised the battle cry. Assopellettieri have joined the group now: in other words, Italy’s beauty and good design industry is not going to give up to Coronavirus outbreak. “We are actually dealing with an epoch-making emergency – commented Franco Gabbrielli, president of the association –. It […]
“Everything is running at full speed”. A comforting message comes from Scandicci. The sender is a leather goods company, Sapaf Atelier 1954, led by Andrea Calistri. “We have successfully implemented a video conference system to keep in touch with our clients – told us the entrepreneur –. We have made distances shorter to get closer […]
The Coronavirus emergency is gradually subsiding: in the meantime, Chinese tanneries are about to open again. Yet the situation is not that good of course, and it could not be otherwise. On the one hand, factories still cannot run at full speed, in terms of manufacturing; on the other hand, several companies are going to […]
