POSTED ON OCTOBER 24, 2009 Three items below In Bologna with the Master of Leathersellers You might have expected that the recession would have meant real problems for the Trade Shows. Yet the need to know what is happening and to get this knowledge first hand has forced the key players in the leather industry […]
Consolidation – a new word for the leather industry
Terms like mergers and acquisitions, consolidation and vertical integration seem very alien in the leather industry but are now being discussed in main stream seminars such as the one at the Shanghai Leather Fair, “Coping with Change”. It is not totally new as the industry has been segmented in different ways for centuries and the […]
Shanghai ACLE, Leather Chemical Consolidation
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 From the Terraces This is being written from the Terrace on the 18th floor of Broadway Mansions, a famous Shanghai residence since 1934, and now a modern hotel overlooking the famous Bund. It is actually the best way to see the Bund right now as the road, the riverside walkway […]
Bertin in the Amazon
BRAZILIAN LEATHER GIANT COMMITS TO AMAZON CATTLE MORATORIUM FOLLOWING INDUSTRY PRESSURE Tough new sourcing policies from Clarks and others have been iinstrumental in a decision by Bertin to expand an official agreement signed in July with the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office and the government of Pará state in Amazonia, which was limited only to excluding […]
The Greenpeace report on the Amazon and Northampton celebrates 100 years of Leather teaching
POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2009 The Amazon is important for the leather industry One highlight of the summer has been the publication of the Greenpeace report “Slaughtering the Amazon” and the way the leather industry has reacted to. We had always thought that cutting down the rain forest was about illegal logging but it turns […]
Clarks and the Amazon – today’s press release;
Responsible management of Clarks’ leather supply chain Clarks regards climate change as a most significant issue and we are working hard across our global business to reduce our overall environmental impact, as part of our commitment to sustainable business practices in our own operations and our supply chain. A recent report by Greenpeace highlighted the […]
One per cent? Really much more….
We are continuously told that the non-mainstream raw materials for leather only constitute 1% of the total leather produced in the world and should be ignored. Mainstream material includes bovine, sheep, goat and pig. Buffalo is occasionally added into the bovine figures. This leaves all the rest which includes such areas as: Kangaroo Deer Yak […]
The first ever Emeritus Professor at the University of Northampton
Tony Emeritus: a. retired, but retaining honorary office; n. (pl. -ti) such as professor, etc. It is a rather special moment when Leather Science (or Technology) provides the first ever Emeritus Professor at a University. Yet that is what Professor Tony Covington has achieved at Northampton and on the 9th of July he gave a […]
Pigs in the world
There are a lot of pigs in the world and they are more important in the leather chain than we think, especially since we have to take seriously the land use issues which are implied in the complaints by Greenpeace that tanners are in part responsible for the damage of the Amazon rain forest. The […]
Emeritus Professor Tony Covington, his life and technology
POSTED ON JULY 13, 2009 Tony Emeritus: a. retired, but retaining honorary office; n. (pl. -ti) such as professor, etc. It is a rather special moment when Leather Science (or Technology) provides the first ever Emeritus Professor at a University. Yet that is what Professor Tony Covington has achieved at Northampton and on the 9th […]
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