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 […]
A £70 million investment (slightly less than 79 million euros) to build up a new manufacturing site and meet, starting from 2019, supposedly growing demand for raw material. E-Leather, a British company formerly settled as a startup between 2001 and 2007, has been into the market of leather upholstery for car, plane and train interiors […]
“A good fair, as usual”. Time to take stock today, at Lineapelle94, on its third and final exhibition day, currently underway (the event was scheduled on February 20-22, at Fieramilano Rho). Gianfranco Dalle Mese, owner of the Conceria Montebello, is happy; same goes for Giancarlo Dani, owner of the tanning group headquartered in Veneto: “We […]
Glitter, layers, iridescence, prints, pearls and mirrors. Summer 2019 is bound to be marked out by search for light, sparkle and fantasy. Such are the guidelines drawn by exhibitors, who presented their trend prompts at Lineapelle94. Iridescent and glittering finishings, also applied to reptile, silkscreen, laminated and opalescent leather, with bright colours, not too vibrant […]
At Lineapelle94 visitors are not really searching for a specific product, something original never seen before. They rather look for inspiration, while walking around over the three days of the exhibition. “We may find everything here, either laminated or woven leather. All we need to make a fine product is here. Now we have to […]
“People wonder, talking about tanning, in which tanneries waste and sewage disposal is easier, what processes are more eco-friendly, and which ones ensure the best performances. People grow their ideas, supported by the national press at times, which subsequently affect the market. Yet, such ideas are not based on scientific evidence; therefore the same assumptions […]
At Lineapelle94 Stazione Sperimentale delle Pelli delle Materie Concianti (SSIP), the Italian Leather Research Institute, and Italian tanning industry have signed an agreement to invest in research quality, aiming at the leadership of Italian leather. “Over the last year we implemented 10 research projects, mostly focused on environmental sustainability” – summarized Edoardo Imperiale – chief […]
Lineapelle 94th edition has just come to an end, and we are soon gearing up for the next events that the leather and materials fair network is going to set or participate in, both in Italy and abroad. Late winter and spring are the seasonal time of the Italian leather collective events in the Asian […]
A developing kaleidoscope. A wide and valuable range of technological opportunities to drive footwear into a new dimension, depicted by ASSOMAC (the Italian association of machinery manufacturers for the leather industry) as “the age of 4.0, that is, the fourth industrial revolution based on the interconnection, between machinery and leather industries, and the exchange of […]
On the first days of Milan Fashion Week the spotlight was on Gucci’s fashion show, held yesterday. The presentation in a surgery, designed by Alessandro Michele, shocked everybody: gloomy atmosphere, aseptic hospital colours, fake decapitated heads or fantasy animals carried by male and female models. Other than the eerie mood, many interesting leather articles paraded […]
“The first day was good”, remarks Nada Molon, administration manager at David System tannery. Lineapelle94, the most important international exhibition for leather, materials and accessories, on the agenda on February 20-22, yesterday opened its stands to welcome exhibitors and buyers of the fashion industry. Molon’s positive feelings matched with the overall satisfaction at Kara’s tannery […]
Stability and caution. In such terms, visitors at Lineapelle94 describe the development of the business markets throughout 2017. “Sales keep going, without a bang though”, points out the general manager of an Italian shoe factory, “mostly” oriented towards international markets. “The current phase is still flat”, remark two more visitors, who are some representatives of […]
Give me a lever and I shall move the Earth, said Archimedes. Let’s spot collagen, the main protein of the animal connective tissue, and we shall grow in-vitro whatever kind of bio-leather, reply today Modern Meadow. Lineapelle94 housed the first European public presentation of the Zoa project, focused on bio-material, that US Modern Meadow are […]
Today is the last valid day to vote for works presented at Amici per la Pelle, a national contest promoted by UNIC (Unione Nazionale Industria Conciaria, the Italian Tanners Association), together with Lineapelle. The prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow morning, at 11am, in the Service Centre Auditorium Hall, at Fieramilano Rho. Over one thousand […]
To protect the specific date of an innovative product advertising and, likewise, to safeguard the date of corporate know-how ownership. ICEC, the Institute of Quality Certification for the Leather Sector, presented such services, which can be mutually integrated, during a seminar held at Lineapelle94. They have developed some tools to protect samples, design and corporate […]
The “Craft The Leather” project, promoted by Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale, the Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium, is back at Lineapelle94. The contest aims to engage a selected number of young designers, coming from the most prestigious international fashion schools, and drive them to get to know vegetable tanned leather manufactured in Tuscany. At […]
The aim is to confirm the portfolio of clients and make it more valuable through new contacts. As well, to suggest light, perforated, coloured leather to play a leading role in summer. To start up new relationships which are meant to get closer in the months to come. Lineapelle94, the most important international exhibition for […]
