POSTED ON JANUARY 7, 2016 Keeping Goldfish to save the planet? When the EU social partners COTANCE and the European trade union, IndustriALL meeting took place in Glasgow last December to discuss the future of the European Leather industry Federico Brugnoli, Consultant from Spin 360, made the point that the amounts of money put into […]
Keeping Goldfish
When the EU social partners COTANCE and the European trade union, IndustriALL meeting took place in Glasgow last December to discuss the future of the European Leather industry Federico Brugnoli, Consultant from Spin 360, made the point that the amounts of money put into lobbying in various industries is very large, and that even in […]
Some Things Tanners Need to do to Make Great Leather in 2016
Make it properly and don’t cut corners with cheap chemicals and badly maintained machinery. We may class leather as a renewable resource – up to a point – but it is costly and valuable. Longevity really matters for the image of our product and for especially when compared with competitive materials like plastics. As a […]
Rediscovering Portugal
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 12, 2015 Portugal with ICLT Over the last ten years I have become very identified with the University here, even although my involvement has always been part time and quite marginal. It is odd as it means I get identified as an “academic’ whereas all my career has been factory based and […]
A future to get excited about
For those of us who were at APLF and heard the Vice Chancellor’s major statement on the move to the new Campus the excitement of the potential for leather in Northampton has been growing. While it is easy to get depressed by the last fifty years of relentless Northampton decline in the 20th century the […]
A Creative Hub with teaching and learning for leather and fashion, with history attached
POSTED ON JULY 7, 2015 A future to get excited about For those of us who were at APLF and heard the Vice Chancellor’s major statement on the move toF the new Campus the excitement of the potential for leather in Northampton has been growing. While it is easy to get depressed by the last […]
Leather creates jobs. Vital in a growing world trying to eradicate poverty
POSTED ON MARCH 3, 2015 Not just jobs, but good jobs Last Wednesday the Institute for Creative Leather Technologies (ICLT) was packed with students listening to chemical companies from Holland and Germany, to SATRA and the BLC plus a team from Aston Martin talking about careers in leather. An additional group including Lear (who have […]
Leather is a “rare thing to be treasured”
First published in ARS Tannery One wonders whether when people got really hooked on writing on parchment hundreds of years ago there was an outcry about there not being enough raw material being left for making garments? Where would all the raw material come from if the parchment industry took it all? No one, after […]
Fair environmental boundaries for leather
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 19, 2015 Getting to the meat of it Leather never lives in isolation. Most often we think forward to the shoemakers and craftsmen making articles of leather or even more likely to the famous brands that market those products at price levels that make us cringe when we think of the margins […]
This is the year to focus on the tannery and the product
This article was first published in ARS Tannery It is hard to imagine that we are half way through the second decade of the new century. While in many ways little appears to have changed that would be a misinterpretation of reality. There have been a number of fundamental shifts. Most of all for the […]
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