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Players, alongside several factors, made such accomplishment feasible. First and foremost, Italian tanners drove this achievement thanks to their consistent and painstaking commitment. In addition to that, on-the-job safety also hangs on risk assessment tools, training courses addressed at workers, compliance with stricter regulations. Not to mention, as well, the valuable action taken by UNIC […]

That’s a tool that enables tanneries to carry out a self-evaluation about risks in their own manufacturing plants. Such project will help companies detect and pinpoint critical situations and, at the same time, plan appropriate action to work them out. Thanks to this service, stakeholders will be provided with fully detailed information about accomplishments that […]

89.4% of tanneries and social parties, which have been interviewed, consider health and safety in tanneries to be a priority in the industry. The first outcome of “due diligence for healthy workplaces in tanneries”, carried out by Cotance, the European confederation of leather tanning associations, and IndustriALL, a trade union platform (supported by European Union […]

Fifty Colombian businesses, including tanneries and leather manufacturing companies, located in San Benito tanning district, to the South of Bogotá, have been provisionally closed. As reported by local press, the companies, which have undergone the closing measure, were not legally authorized to discharge solid waste and liquid sewage from the plants placed in the district, […]

In the first six months of the year 2018, Brazil’s slaughter has been increasing by 4,3% on annual basis, as 15,4 million cattle units, in total, have been killed. Despite a slowdown (-16%) in May, because of a strike called by shippers, such figure turns out to be higher thanks to simultaneously increasing exports and […]

The meeting is scheduled in Brussels, on October 9. Cotance, the European confederation of leather tanning associations, is going to make public the outcomes of Due Diligence for Healthy Workplaces in the Tanning Industry. They carried out the project from November 2017 till January 2018, in cooperation with IndustriaALL-Europe, while complying with the European Community […]

US leather associations, two of them, are going to join forces for several reasons: many companies are members of both associations, which often strive to achieve the same goals and safeguard common interests, despite their acting from different standpoints in the same industry. Hence LIA (the association of US tanners) and USHSLA (the American association […]

In the first six months of 2018 revenues have been increasing, as leather manufacturers earned fifty million euros more. From January till June, Spanish tanners have been exporting finished leather whose overall incomes amounted to 203,7 million euros, that is, +2,9% compared to 2017 same period. Data are provided, on a regular basis, by Madrid […]

Tunisia recent industrial big success and development also depends on the tanning business. In the first 8 months of the year 2018 domestic industrial investments increased by 3.9% on annual basis: according to data provided by the Ministry of small and medium-sized enterprises, subsequently reported by local press, in the country they managed to create […]