At the end of 2019, Montblanc’s revenues may reach 1 billion euros. While speaking to Il Sole 24 Ore, Nicolas Baretzki, chief executive officer of the brand, currently controlled by Richemont group, said he would not worry that much if by chance they did not succeed in notching the goal this year. Just for the […]
A brand new factory for Ecco Leather, which is the leather tanning division of the Danish footwear group. President Dieter Kasprzak (together with Zhang Binna, deputy director of Tong’an Chinese district) inaugurated a high-technology leather cutting new plant. The facility, situated in Xiamen, is undoubtedly going to enhance the group’s development in the area, which […]
“Yes, there is a vegan movement, it is quite evident. Yet, I think it will not be able to jeopardize the whole leather tanning industry”. Skip Horween is striving to draw the general attention back to tangible data. Two weeks ago, PETA bought a vertical billposting on a billboard, situated just a few metres far...
Nigeria’s leather industry is about to get support and financial aid from Europe. In fact, as reported by a number of local daily newspapers, the European Union, together with the German Society for International Cooperation, will soon start a partnership project with Nigeria’s government. The aim is “to support and develop the industry, as they […]
From the most classic, smooth and single-coloured leathers to those presenting the most extreme processing. Visitors requests to exhibitors at Lineapelle 97 (which closed last Friday at Fieramilano Rho) tell of an attraction of opposite poles. On the one hand, naturalness is sought. On the other hand, tanneries are required to demonstrate they know how […]
CHANEL‘s appetite is not going to calm down. The French brand has not only acquired (last July) Tuscan tannery Samanta. Not only they are about to finish the same operation by becoming the owner of Degermann‘s French drums. As reported by US Women’s Wear Daily newspaper, CHANEL has put in its portfolio 40% of the […]
By 2022 Hermès will create its second leather workshop in the Ardennes. It was announced by the fashion house, thus confirming a rumour that has being around for some months now. On Friday October 4th, top management of Hermès announced the beginning of works to expand production in the French region. Which means the opening […]
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 […]
