The future of leather, fashion and luxury industry is a work in progress. It is due to start officially on September 25-27, at Fieramilano Rho, during Lineapelle95. The fair event is going to open a brand new space, fully dedicated to the most innovative, though actual, frontiers of research over materials and processes. Lineapelle Innovation […]
Automotive business keeps running fast. In fact, production of accessories (leather vehicle interiors, to begin with) enables top players to enhance their profits and carry out new investment projects. French Faurecia ended 2018 first half-year period by achieving very rewarding accomplishments: overall sales nearly reached 9 billion euros (8,9 for the records), therefore increasing by […]
South African ostrich unit of Kein Karoo International Leather, a meat group also in charge of leather tanning activities, and Mosstrich group are about to carry out a merger soon. Negotiations are already well underway. As reported by Die Hoorn, a South African daily newspaper, the board of directors of both enterprises approved the merger […]
Over the last 30 months, in Argentina 7,500 plants, manufacturing leather goods and accessories, shut down; as a consequence of that, 70,000 jobs have gone lost. Throughout 2018 first half-year period such haemorrhage did not stop: 70 factories have been definitely closed, and around 3,000 workers are now unemployed. These data, supplied by CIMA, the […]
The name of Siberia’s hub is Novosibirsk Technopark. Here they have implemented a few patents for processing fish skins: all of them are based on the employment of organic tannins whose environmental footprint is considerably low. The first experimental project, which dates back to 2015, was designed by two students, coming from Technopark Summer School: […]
The challenge of the future can be faced in various ways. Lineapelle chooses to do it by adding to its exhibition proposal the exploration of what will be the new scenarios and the new horizons of the tanning industry and of the whole fashion system. A challenge that is defining its codes. During the next […]
Ball is in Milan’s court now, as Lineapelle 95th edition is coming up, on September 25-27, following its sneak preview in New York, which took place at Metropolitan Pavilion on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th. A number of selected exhibitors, 125 in total, took part in the fair event. “Many visitors showed up, as usual […]
Hermès is doing beyond expectations, better than anyone could possibly forecast. At the end of 2018 first half-year period the brand’s consolidated revenues increased by 11%, at fixed values, and went up by 5% at current rates of exchange, compared to 2017 same period, therefore reaching 2.853 billion euros. In the first six months of […]
Over the last days, in Ho Chi Minh City India’s consulate in Vietnam promoted a meeting: some corporate representatives of India’s CLE (Council for Leather Exports), along with some delegates from LEFASO (Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association) took part in it. That was the aim of the meeting: Indian tanneries want to increase their […]
Ironically enough, over the last two-month period, from April to May, India’s export of buffalo meat increased by 15%, in terms of volumes, and went up by 10% with regard to incomes: such data are provided by APEDA, India’s department of agricultural and processed food products. Despite that, the industry is not in high spirits, […]
In South Africa they are taking things very seriously. Footwear industry workers, who have been on strike for nine days, have just decided “to continue their protest indefinitely”. They look quite determined indeed. One more concern, about the situation, is that any negotiating solution seems to be very distant at the moment. Trade unions, Southern […]
After London, New York. Lineapelle’s network of international sneak previews flies across the Atlantic to open its exhibition stands in the Big Apple. In fact, Lineapelle New York 36th edition is about to take place at Metropolitan Pavilion, tomorrow and the day after, on July 17-18. Several exhibitors, 125 of them, will participate in the […]
“It is the right event, in the right place, to come across and tackle creativity hints that arise from a very important market, with regard to style trend evolution”, remarks one of the exhibitors. “Smart visitors, smart location, positive and proactive contacts, both traditional and new, which are meant to be a valuable starting point […]
“Bally is an architect of leather. We are a footwear manufacturing company that achieves outstanding sales as to accessories. According to our definition, ready to wear is an accessory item for an accessory one”. Such is the comment released by Frederic de Narp, chief executive officer of Bally, during an interview published on CPP-Luxury portal. […]
Three potential buyers are making a bid for Carven, yet the French company is allegedly looking for investors to prevent their buyout. Carven, a French high-end apparel brand, went into receivership: the last day (July 9) to submit an acquisition bid, before the Trade Court of Paris, is overdue now. As reported by Fashion Network, […]
EU is going to hear the tanning industry on leather genuineness. On July 5, a group of representatives of the leather industry, led by Andreas Kindermann, president of Cotance, had a meeting, in Brussels, with Slawomir Tokarski, general director of the European Commission’s Department of Growth (DG Grow). UNIC – Italian Tanneries also took part […]
The first mutual moves, between China and The United States, still have not affected the leather industry so far: neither customs duties on import of Chinese products, imposed by US President Trump in spring and entered into force at the beginning of July, nor the ones applied in response by China, have been concerning leather […]
In Tanzania, Freddy Kabala, general supervisor of the industrial development plan at the Leather Association of Tanzania, sent an invitation to some Indian potential investors to meet up and discuss together about business investments in the country. According to Kabala, so far the lack of investments has considerably affected Tanzania’s incomes, whose exports massively lie […]
A wind of leather tanning acquisitions does not calm down, as it keeps blowing in the area between Arzignano and Santa Croce sull’Arno. Peretti Group, one of the most important players in the leather tanning business, in Veneto district, announced they bought out the whole capital assets of Conceria Miura, a Tuscan tannery founded in […]
ISA TanTec (also) looks at Vietnam. The leather-tanning group is currently working to develop their second tannery in the Asian country, the fifth one all over the world: aiming at that, they have already taken a land, which extends across an area of 60,000 square meters, in the province of Tay Ninh. The manufacturing plant […]
