The last edition of APLF has sent comforting messages to Italian exhibitors: compared to the outcomes of the fair over the last years, vibrations are better then. The exhibition has also given one more confirmation though: as to some specific segments, Chinese manufacturing encounters difficulties while trying to keep up with its competitors, mostly old […]
They signed their agreement today in Hong Kong. ICEC (the Quality Certification Institute for the Leather Sector) and CSCB (the Brazilian Leather Certification of Sustainability) joined forces to further enhance and reinforce the “mutual acknowledgement of certifications – as pointed out in a joint release – which are supposed to provide the leather sector with […]
Waiting for the Asia Pacific Leather Fair to kick off, ICT, the International Council of Tanners, held their annual meeting, which took place today in Hong Kong, to replace their top management. Former president Richard Pai, from Taiwan, leaves the company, and new president Lisa Howlett takes over. The new leader is an American entrepreneur: […]
Equitan are in high spirits. The company, headquartered in Chiampo (Vicenza), a leading manufacturer of machinery for tanneries, has been awarded, a few hours ago, the “Best of APLF” prize for innovation, during the international trade industry fair, which is underway in Hong Kong. The company, founded in 1998 by Antonio Antoniazzi, was awarded for […]
Flexibility, digital technologies, customization, and management of changing relations between brands and final consumers. All of these topics have a common denominator: Industry 4.0. On top of that, they will be discussed during the forthcoming edition (n.20, coming up soon) of UITIC conference, the international technical footwear congress scheduled in Porto, Portugal, from 16th to […]
FASHION BRANDS (ALMOST ALL OF THEM) GO UP. LEATHER GOODS ARE DOING WELL, AND SNEAKERS ARE ON TOP. BUSINESS IS MOVING, TO OTHER DIRECTIONS THOUGH. SINCE NOT ALL BRANDS ARE IN A GOOD SHAPE, PROVISIONS FOR BAGS DECREASE A GREAT DEAL AND SUCCESS OF SPORTWEAR PUTS PRESSURE ON PRICES AGAIN. FASHION DEMANDS FOR CLOSER SERVICES. MILAN SENDS COMFORTING MESSAGES TO TANNING INDUSTRY, URGING IT TO FIND NEW SOLUTIONS THOUGH.
A free trade area between Europe and Mercosur might be doable and effective, provided that South American member countries actually reassure the European Union about their giving up all tanning protectionist policies. When it comes to negotiations between the EU and the common market that variously includes 12 countries placed to the south of the […]
Turkey and Russia get along again. “Russian market is back, as it used to be in the good old days. We make collections faster than the big manufacturing countries. They choose us because we work at full speed and we deliver shoes much more rapidly”, recently remarked Süleyman Gürsoy, president of the Association of Turkish […]
Lanxess, a top manufacturer of chemical solutions, most of all directed at the tanning industry, was honored with the Innovationspreis für Klima und Umwelt (IKU) 2017 prize, an award in acknowledgement of their commitment to innovation in terms of climate and environment. At the award ceremony, which took place in Berlin, German Secretary of State, […]
Dr. Martens gives up Vegan Leather label, while planning, for next summer, their green collections rebranding. The British manufacturer announced their decision in a written notice they sent to Cotance on February 5: starting from Spring-Summer 2018 collections, their product lines, entirely made of alternative material, will be labelled (in the stores as well) as […]
In the United Kingdom, men’s bags are outdoing the other fashion accessories, in terms of increased sales. At the beginning of the latest London Fashion Week Men’s (on January 6-8), Mintel, a marketing research company, made public a social survey on the fashion accessories business, whose estimated turnover, in the UK, amounts to £2,9 billion […]
Auburn Leather changes its ownership. The US tannery, renowned for its leather laces manufacturing, will be bought out, in 2018, by ISA TanTec international tanning group (last November they acquired Italian Scamosceria del Brenta).They will bring the project to completion by the end of the year. Due to such takeover, they will move the manufacturing […]
They arrived in Milan last week on Tuesday, right on time to visit Lineapelle94 and Simac Tanning Tech, and share with UNIC tanners their meaningful participation in the fair, and much more. Fifteen Algerian leather professionals, gathered in a delegation composed of private and public tanneries, ministries and local research/training centres, have encountered Italian leather […]
We are talking about a research project that aims to determine the inner workings of manufacturing processes on which finished leather tensile strength hangs on. On top of that, that offers the possibility to test and detect the effects of mineral tanning substances on the physical properties of the finished product, and therefore assess and […]
The contest was on its sixth edition, and quality was very high (as usual). Last week, during Lineapelle94, Consorzio Vera Pelle Italiana Conciata al Vegetale, the consortium of Italian vegetable tanned leather, exhibited the prototypes made by 10 young fashion designers (coming from 9 international schools), who participated in the Craft The Leather creative contest. […]
Several qualified clients showed up, “not only the traditional ones, including the luxury fashion companies as well as the most prestigious brands, but also new players, small and medium sized, who search, at Lineapelle, for reliable partners in terms of product quality, outstanding service and innovation”. Lineapelle, “the trade business experience for global fashion & […]
After a very positive 2017, manufacturers of machinery and technology for footwear, leather goods and tanning industries look ahead at 2018 in a positive and confident mood. Such optimism was quite widespread amongst exhibitors at Simac Tanning Tech, the trade industry fair ended yesterday in Milan. For the records, visitors increased by 18% compared to […]
GST Autoleather top managers feel relieved: “The company transfer is the right thing to do to reassure our clients, our employees and our suppliers”. Such is the remark released by Dennis Hiller, chief executive officer of the company that focuses its manufacturing on leather for car interiors and upholstery, about the stock sale to a […]
French Faurecia multinational corporation, a top player in the industry of leather for car interiors and components, in the automotive sector, keep growing and making investments. After getting so close to buy out, at auction sale, American GST competitor (their bid was the second best in fact), Faurecia made public data about 2017 financial statement. […]
Albert Einstein wore Levi’s. The US firm is going to launch again on the market, starting from next Monday, the leather jacket model bought and worn, for decades, by the German physicist. When Einstein arrived in the States, he bought a brown leather unlined jacket made by Levi’s. He loved so much the garment that […]
