For every action there is an equal reaction. On June 5th, the Trump administration has eliminated India from the beneficiary countries of the preferential entry program to the US market (GSP), a condition that allowed the leather area of New Delhi to have privileged access to the stars and stripes market square. The newly re-elected […]
Suspended activities and great uncertainties about the future. After the months of stop imposed by the government, tanneries of Uttar Pradesh fear that they will not be able to get back to work. Their discomfort is shared by the rest of the Indian leather industry, which wonders whether it would be better to take other […]
Is Vietnam a solution or a trap for US companies? Even before the start of the trade war between the USA and China, production operators were already running away from the latter due to the increased salary costs, and many of them, as a matter of fact, chose Hanoi as a the alternative destination. The...
Uruguay intends to fight the current crisis hitting the tanning segment with a protectionist behavior. After the shock caused by the closing of production sites and loss of hundreds of jobs announced by JBS Zenda, congressman Eduardo Rubio (Uniòn Popular party) presented a draft legislation that limits “for a transitional period” sales of tanning raw […]
Code red among Scottish livestock farmers. The cause? Brexit. The potential exit of the UK from the European Union is already having an impact on the Northern end of the British territory, where livestock-related activities are under pressure. On one side is the decrement in meat sales – and thus the thinning of the herds […]
An ancient fragment of decorated leather has appeared from the land of North Yorkshire. This is what workers of the British county have found while engaged in excavations to upgrade the electricity grid near the town of Aldwark. The leather fragment is fifteen centimetres long and ten or so tall. In the centre there is […]
The tanneries of Ávila are seeing the light after seven hundred years. In the Spanish city, capital of the homonymous province a hundred kilometers west of Madrid, an open-air museum was opened in recent days, created thanks to the recovery work of the ancient district of San Segundo, the area dedicated to processing of leather […]
A material, an industry, a cultural expression. Leather celebrates its magnificent everyday dimension in New York (a location with significance) and looks forward to the future. Welcome to the fourth edition of the tanners’ world congress
Vegan marketing is coming to the four wheel industry too: the goal is to absorb electric cars into its idea of sustainability. But the market is far more complex than propaganda
All those that believe that the new auto market, the one of hybrid and electric cars, is leather free, is largely mistaken. Green and synthetic aren’t synonyms, warn tanners. While regardless of what is said by polemicists, leather’s sustainability is a fact
The boundary is quite fleeting. In certain cases, it doesn’t even exist anymore. For cars, fashion and accessories the word of order is contamination. And these examples tell it In a particularly significant way
It’s “the type of thing that makes a vehicle different”. What this “thing” is and why it has this type of power, is explained by somebody that knows a lot about car interiors (as James Bond can confirm)
How much is produced and where. What market and preference trends are present. around the world of upholstery, in collaboration with CSIL
Luxury brands and tanneries. Upholstery and furnishing accessories. Footwear and leather goods. The Milan Design Week, held from April 9 to 14, in its frenetic multiplication of events and exhibition spaces that, from Fieramilano Rho, has invaded the whole city, has placed, perhaps more than ever, leather in the role of privileged “object” of the action of an infinite number of players. Which have made it the tool for enhancing their creative choices. In these pages (before going into a consideration in terms of meaning) we propose a selected and undoubtedly amazing gallery of very exclusive, extremely interesting projects
“Leather returns to dress the house with its own personality”. And it does it differently, in a new way, maybe more complicated, but able to communicate to the great public with A renewed adaptability and a flexible modernity. The confirmation comes from the last, oceanic salone/fuorisalone
A brand that “still has a lot of potential to be used in terms of its offer” and that, from the next winter collections, should show the first Results of its relaunch. Bottega Veneta in the analysis of Flavio Cereda (Jefferies) and Mario Ortelli (Ortelli & Co)
Potuguese tanning grew exponentially from 2010, but in 2017 it stopped. The segment finds footwear to be its top client, but the rise of sneakers, along with alternative materials and relocations, make the cycle negative
Amman’s tanning segment has great potential: the availability of raw material. The sector is lively and hungry for more. But in order to use its full potential it still has a long way to go
