Hot in São Paulo It’s Tuesday and it is hot in São Paulo, and late afternoon some of the suburbs are flooded when a huge thunderstorm fills the skies with incredible rain for an hour. The lights and power go out at Cuoromoda and the 2nd International Leather Forum is nearly brought to a stop. […]
LeatherNaturally!
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 LeatherNaturally! For some time discussion has been going on about a Brand Leather generic campaign similar to WoolMark and the Cotton Council in the USA. With pressure on leather from new technical textiles, plastic materials at one end and some unchallenged claims by environmental NGOs at the other the time […]
Finding Alumni
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Finding Alumni in Ethiopia and at APLF, Hong Kong Addis Ababa has probably the highest density of alumni of any City in the world. It has competition mainly from Karachi. So a visit to the All African leather fair in Addis is always going to be highlighted by many greetings […]
Brand Leather concepts from Beijing
Speech at Opening of the 30th IULTCS Congress in Beijing, China Elton Hurlow has long had a good understanding of the issues in the leather industry. This is his speech at the opening of the IULTCS which has just started in Beijing:………….. Members of the IULTCS, Delegates, Honorary Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Leather as a […]
the battle against leather picks up pace, Northampton leather cluster, APLF and the recession
POSTED ON MAY 29, 2009. 3 posts below Bringing in the students One of the purposes of going out to Hong Kong is to attract new students, but APLF 2009 was no so great a success. In fact the School must be a bit unsure about next year as the recession has hit the trade […]
Bologna, APLF, Northampton and Bob Higham; plus of course Leather Naturally
POSTED ON APRIL 28, 2009 two items below From past to present in one easy move Sadly I will miss another SLTC Council Meeting in Northampton on Wednesday as after my accident and back operation I am still strictly limited in how much I can travel and how many hours I am allowed on my […]
The start of Leather Naturally triggered by bad science in Hong Kong
POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2008 The danger of bad science in good hands It was only a week ago that we were listening to Dr Heinz-Peter Germann give a very clear and straight forward Procter Memorial Lecture about the current technical status of tanning from an environmental stance at the SLTC conference in the UK. […]