The data are incontrovertible. In the eight years between 2015 and 2022, Colombia’s leather industry has seen its opening to the world get smaller and smaller. Foreign sales, report data from the Ministry of Tourism and Economic Activities (MinCIT), dropped by an average of 8.5% per year. Seeing values dwindle dangerously: Colombia has dropped from […]
Thomas Stöllner‘s research team from the German Mining Museum in Bochum-Leibniz has discovered a child’s shoe, complete with linen laces, dating back over 2,000 years. And he did so in an area where rock salt mining was already taking place in the Iron Age. Finding ancient leather shoes during archaeological excavations brings to light not […]
LVMH Métiers d’Art isn’t stopping. The “community” of suppliers of the French group has gotten even bigger with the acquisition of a new tannery: Spanish Grupo Verdeveleno, which was already showcasing its products inside the space that LVMH Métiers d’Art occupied at Lineapelle, was already a supplier. Verdeveleno joins Heng Long, Masoni (of which LVMH...
A bluff. And, as is often the case with bluffs, short-legged. Just a few weeks have passed since Apple‘s “veg turn”. In order to speed up the achievement of its carbon neutrality targets, it has (among other things) removed leather from the materials of its accessories. A move more useful for marketing than for industrial […]
Leather UK launches a guide to buying leather. A young guide, since it specifically targets Gen Z. It is entitled “A Guide to Buying Leather”. It includes information to “provide young buyers with the hard facts to overcome meaningless marketing terms and navigate the minefield of leather misinformation”. Some instructions in the guide are: how […]
Cotance’s Leather Traceability Cluster, created to align the world’s traceability systems for leather around the world, met at Lineapelle one year after being formed. LTC looks to 2025, when the EUDR will be in force (forcing any leather sold in the EU to be certified no-deforestation). That means it can’t come from livestock farms located...
The context is what it is. In one word: concerning. Italy’s leather fairs tried to liven the situation, as they took place in Milan last week: Micam, Mipel and The One, for finished products. Lineapelle and Simac Tanning Tech for raw materials and technology. All of them, in their own way, did well. Simac Tanning...
The edition that has just gone into the archives, writes Lineapelle, “hosted 1,330 exhibitors and welcomed a 25% increase in the number of professional operators compared to the September 2022 edition”. Italian visitors grew by 26%, “+22% those from abroad, coming from 109 countries”. The attendance trend showed “a particular dynamism of visitors from France...
Over 40,000 visitors came to Micam, Mipel, The One Milano and Homi (Fieramilano Rho, 17-20 September). Organizers communicated that the growth from last year’s edition was +21%, bringing the number of visitors to 42,273. An increase dictated by foreign buyers, for the most part. Among the countries with the most representatives were Spain, France and...
Scottish Leather Group has invested 14 million pounds to build a new tannery. To open its production site, the group took 7 years and defines the project as “historic”. The investment is “part of the continuous effort to increase quality, sustainability and traceability standards”. The new tannery is located in Bridge of Weir, near Paisley. […]
From 2019 to 2021 (without considering 2020 as statistically irrelevant due to lockdowns), work accidents in European tanneries decreased 16%. In Italy we know that from 2003 to today, they dropped 60%. Statistics are useful to better understand the results obtained in terms of workplace safety, and even more so to be able to identify […]
Merging to beat Chinese competition. This is the main objective of the merger between the tanneries Viposa and Vancouros. This is how Viva was born, a Brazilian company with a turnover of around EUR 600 million per year. The announcement comes after five years of negotiations and six joint ventures. The new reality will have...
There is more movement in leather goods than in footwear. The large luxury groups enjoy more tailwind than the independents and, above all, of the players in the lower segments. In the leather market, a chess game is being played: the economic figures are negative and for the tanneries, moving the right pawns, in terms […]
Basic materials, soft nappa more or less thick, leathers with a natural sheen or more “pushed”, fluid, liquid. From naturalness to experimentation, from sporty casual to extreme processing. The trends for the winter season 2024/25 outlined by the Lineapelle Fashion Committee, under the title “Metamorphosi”’, call for a transformation, a change of point of view....
The slowdown was present even at the end of 2022, and it was confirmed during the first half of 2023 on the same basis (inflation, lower demand and geopolitical concerns). Lineapelle’s Market Insights show a complex period for the tanning segment around the world which knows very few exceptions. Italy The main indicators show the first...
Lacking young people in the fashion industry? The competition International Lab of Mittelmoda – The Fashion Award, offers them an important opportunity. “More than 600 young people participated. Only 25 made it to the finals. And these, for us, have the qualification to continue to pursue fashion. Not only to become a future creative director....
The second richest man in the world, LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, landed in Brindisi last week in his private jet. He paid a visit to the manufacturing operations of Antonio Filograna Sergio‘s Green Seagull Group. Filograna himself told to Nuovo Quotidiano the details of the “welcome visit”. Arnault came to Puglia to see and touch...
[sponsored article] With the approval of the ‘Lei do Couro’ (Leather Law) in January 2022, the issue was taken care of in Portugal. Now APIC (The Portuguese Leather Association representing the tanning industry and the Leather Cluster in Portugal) is ready for international collaborations so that regulations governing the commercial use of the terms leather […]
Shoes and handbags: quantity decreases, revenue increases. What concerns operators is the slowdown experienced during the 2nd quarter of 2023. The number of companies in both segments has decreased, while the total number of people working in them has increased. Of course, fashion brands are influencing the context and third-party manufacturing is “leading” the statistics....
“Made-in-Italy companies of the leather chain, accounting for between 80% and 90% of global fashion goods, are represented by the 4 associations – says Flavio Sciuccati, senior partner of The European House Ambrosetti and director of global fashion unit –. It’s a segment that covers machinery, finished products and tanneries, employing 130,000 people and generating...
