EU Public consultation on the authenticity leather labelling system at EU level Dear Madam/Sir, We are pleased to announce the launch of a public consultation on the authenticity leather labelling system at EU level as a part of the impact assessment study on the matter. The survey is available in seven languages: English, French, German, […]
Paris is back to centre stage
Cuir a Paris brings Paris back centre stage Cuir a Paris is on for the 25th time this week. I have to admit that there have been so much changes in shows in Paris since I began in the leather industry that I assuming that means twelve and a half years with the show twice […]
Sixteen Years of ACLE
The All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) has reached a milestone yesterday when it opened at the New International Expo Centre, in Shanghai. Launched in Beijing in 1998 as a business platform for China’s leather industry, the exhibition entered its 16th year. The event is not only important for what it celebrates, it is also an […]
Autumn Trade Fairs
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 Sunday in Shanghai It’s Sunday and I’m in Shanghai. It used to be that whenever you went to a leather show you would start meeting people you knew at the departure gate, or later when lounges became common in the airline lounge. But times have changed. Our industry has restructured […]
Degree Ceremony and the new MSc
POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2013 Degrees Apart In our business the essential skill for a tanner lies in managing what happens inside the factory. It is not just making great leather but being able to make the great same leather day in and day out. The cost of errors – unhappy customers with empty factories, […]
Alumni are important and Innovation in the leather industry
POSTED ON JULY 8, 2013 Two items below The Value of Alumni When I was working on helping the Pakistan Government update their strategy for the leather industry a few years ago I had the opportunity to visit large numbers of tanneries and shoe factories. What was astonishing was that in factory after factory I […]
Innovation as it used to be
I am sitting at my desk holding a thick book. It is the outcome of a quite a few years of part time work getting a PhD in management at the University of Bath. It is not a leather industry PhD but it is about the leather industry in that it looks at the evolution […]
Life in the Leather Industry need not be the pits
SLTC 116th Annual Conference The long age of the SLTC Annual Conference is a measure of the introduction of chromium technology to the leather industry, as that was the moment when tannery owners started to hire chemists to manage their production. Testing pH and astringency by tasting it was no longer adequate as short process […]
Professor Nishimura on Japan, Student Prizegiving
POSTED ON MAY 8, 2013 Particularly Engaging Students For those readers who are keen listeners to BBC Radio then Robin Day’s World of Business is a must listen. I download them as podcasts and listen in the car while I drive up to the University from home. The programme this week was “Job Search: Millions of […]
The hide will not adapt itself to the leather market
Leather is a synonym for paradox I seem to remember the start of the year beig very much defined by three months of travel to sports and outdoor trade fairs in the US and Europe, coming up for air with APLF in Hong Kong. The sports shows have reduced in number and the way tanners […]
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