APLF Dubai: a moment for conversation
As APLF Dubai gets underway, Mike Redwood acknowledges the efforts of key industry figures who paved the way for the leather industry as it is today.
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PRINT & DIGITAL
Leather must stay focused on the environment
The war in Ukraine has driven other issues out of the news and redrawn the priorities for business, writes Mike Redwood, but one item that must stay on the agenda for tanners is climate change.
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Kangaroos are better for Australia than cattle
Industry Consultant Catherine Money discusses the facts that contradict the flawed thinking of animal rights activists when it comes to the kangaroo industry in Australia.
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The need for unity in a time of conflict
There are many reasons for us all to be pulled apart in 2022, but that means the leather industry needs to fight for unity more than ever before, writes Deputy Editor Tom Hogarth.
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Transforming cooperation in the leather industry
The leather industry desperately needs more cooperation and unity, especially when the world at large is so fractured, Mike Redwood comments.
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Who’s auditing the auditors?
In the latest Against the Grain, Sam Setter expresses his concerns over the state of auditing in the leather industry.
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Manifesting a united leather industry
In the first issue of 2022, Mike Redwood spoke on the potential that leather can achieve if the industry continues to work towards greater unity and cooperation.
Read More...Talking Point January/February 2022
In the first issue of the year, we asked experts from across the leather industry: Why do you feel that natural materials including leather are treated so negatively on the Higg Material Sustainability Index, and do you think that materials from fossil-fuel carbon sources are unfairly advantaged?
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A truly unwelcome black swan event
Dr Mike Redwood examines the potential fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the latest event to shake the world's, and leather's, global trade foundations.
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Heading for a post-globalisation leather industry
ILM Deputy Editor Tom Hogarth ponders whether globalisation is at an end for the leather industry and what the future might look like.
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