Scottish Leather Group and its new initiative: ‘Sustainable By Nature’
On launching a new sustainability initiative in June 2020, Scottish Leather Group (SLG) made public six commitments that it says will help it establish a “a zero-impact, sustainable manufacturing plat...
6 Jul 202017min
Leather Leaders: Jon Clark
Tanning group PrimeAsia has leather manufacturing facilities in Huangjiang in China and in Ba Ria-Vung Tau in Vietnam. These tanneries have a combined production capacity of around 11 million square-f...
8 Jun 202036min
Leather_Leaders_Episode_Two
In late 2019, the president of Portugal’s main leather industry body, APIC, Nuno Carvalho, published an article in the main national newspaper strenuously defending the industry against unfair critici...
29 Apr 202030min
Leather and the coronavirus
A discussion among members of the World Leather team over the impacts the coronavirus or Covid-19 outbreak had had on the global leather industry by mid-March 2020.
15 Mar 202016min
How changes in meat consumption will affect the leather sector
Reflections on ‘Veganuary’ and meat substitutes and how they could affect leather production in the years ahead.
31 Jan 202013min
Leather Leaders: Jonathan Muirhead
The first in a new series of in-depth interviews with visionary industry leaders is a conversation with the honorary chairman of the Scottish Leather Group.
14 Jan 202022min
World Leather Podcast - episode two
In this second edition of World Leather’s new podcast series, the team examines in depth the announcement from Tuscan exotic leather manufacturer A&A that it will launch “a tanning system with zero en...
13 Des 201914min
World Leather podcast
News and conversation from World Leather magazine, the global leather industry's most authoritative publication.
27 Nov 201949s
