On October 24, in the morning, residents of Ipioca, a very beautiful beach area located to the north of Maceiò, woke up with a rather weird surprise: they found, on the beach, 7 packages of finished leather. The parcels, quite unusual indeed, which were rotted (and stinking too, as reported by local press) because of […]
A model is posing before shelving racks, in a store, where you can see hundreds of leather samples piled up on the pallets. He is wearing leather trousers, as well as leather shoes; he is holding a leather jacket under his arm. Likewise, another model holds a leather small suitcase while wearing leather shoes and […]
THE MARKET CONFIRMS ITS TANTRUM-THROWING ATTITUDE AN PROVES INNOVATION TO BE AND EVOLUTION AND CULTURAL INPUT. THE CONCRETENESS OF STYLISTIC TRENDS FOR WINTER 19/20 IS SHOWN AND THE CAPACITY TO CREATE “IDEAL OPPORTUNITIES TO COMPARE THE NETWORK” ISN’T MISSING. WELCOME TO MOST INTERNATIONAL AND DYNAMIC BUSINESS SHOW FOR THE SUPPLYING SEGMENT OF THE FASHION AND LUXURY INDUSTRY
“We were already actively playing in the Spanish market: we are here to expand our business now. Here we can meet several interesting medium and medium-high segment brands. Spain’s footwear business looks more rewarding than the one in Italy or in the United States”. Luigi Barone, from Barone Pellami, based in Naples, shows his interest […]
Trumpler Group announced their forthcoming acquisition of Langro-Chemie Theo Lang, a company headquartered in Stuttgart and specialized in chemistry for leather finishing. The deal, which is due to be effective starting from 1 January 2019, will enable Trumpler to acquire all the employees of Langro-Chemie, who will be still positioned on the market as trusted […]
Such is the plan: to double their manufacturing plants aiming to augment by 50% their production volumes. JBS Couros, the leather tanning division of the Brazilian meat giant, are planning to enhance their factories based in Vietnam. As reported by Furniture Today, the main aim of the group is to increase their supplying capacity for […]
All crazy for sneakers. People have a real obsession for them. It is no use recalling it, since everybody knows, at this point, that training shoes have become a must-be footwear model. All manufacturers must add them in their collections: hard luxury brands as well as the ones actively playing in the fast fashion industry. […]
They have been talking about it for months, at this point. The question is: how much does the overwhelming power of sneakers affect the present and the future of the leather for soles niche business? It is not easy to work it out. Cuoio di Toscana, a leading consortium specialized in manufacturing leather for footwear […]
At Lineapelle winter 2019/2020 has already come up. Style trends, regarding materials, fabrics and synthetics, accessories and components, were presented during the recent edition of the most important business show in the international leather industry, which took place in Milan last month, on September 25-27. During the fair event, exhibitors spotlighted samples and suggestions while […]
Luen Thai Holdings, headquartered in Hong Kong, has recently bought out their competitor, Universal Elite Holdings. The deal price was 28 million US dollars. Thanks to such acquisition, they created a new outsourcing giant, manufacturing leather bags and currently hiring 50,000 employees in 7 plants (Luen Thai runs some factories in Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines […]
A “slight slowdown”, which had been predicted by financial analysts, occurred. Likewise, analysts were also right about the potential business expansion of LVMH group in the first nine months of the year and during the third financial quarter, whose outcomes, in terms of revenues, were made public yesterday immediately after the closing of the stock […]
The most relevant accomplishment achieved by Stella McCartney is the free employment of synthetic fabrics in the haute couture industry. The bad thing is that now, “18 years later”, “fish have such synthetics inside their belly”. As a matter of fact, the fashion designer, who is very well known for her extremist position against the […]
CNC is the Conseil National du Cuir (the Leather National Council), the French confederation that gathers and represents, in France, “9,400 companies and 130,000 workers, currently employed in the industry of leather, tanning, footwear, leather goods, gloves manufacturing and supply”. The whole business or so. In the past days they made public a report over […]
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 […]
