“Leather is an organic and highly durable product, but what makes Kind Leather truly sustainable is the way it is processed, using only those parts of the hide best suited for leather”, says Fernando Bellese, Marketing and Sustainability Manager, JBS Couros, who will make the presentation in Munich with a special focus on automotive leather. “We were able to create a higher quality product while avoiding waste and using fewer products to treat the hide”.
Kind Leather is also said to provide additional sustainability through its end-to-end traceability programme, which gathers data throughout the leather production chain, from the farm to the end product; a modern monitoring system oversees and verifies more than 80,000 cattle suppliers in Brazil to ensure they comply with the social and environmental standards set out in the Company’s Responsible Raw Material Procurement Policy.
JBS Couros is the leather Division of JBS SA headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the world’s largest protein provider and leather processor.
Fernando Bellese will be joined by speakers from Wollsdorf Leather, FILK, One4Leather and Frost & Sullivan during the conference. Further speakers and topics will be announced on the ILM website in the coming weeks.
About Fernando Bellese
Fernando Bellese works as Marketing and Sustainability Manager in JBS Couros and studied at King´s College – London between 2007 and 2009 (Ma Tourism, Environment and Development). Engaged actively in different national and international initiatives such as the Leather Working Group, Leather Naturally, the Brazilian Roundtable of Sustainable Livestock and the Brazilian Special Commission for the Research of Sustainable Leather Production Processes, Fernando has participated directly in important discussions about innovation, supply-chain, traceability, carbon footprint, environment, transparency and animal welfare involving the worldwide leather industry.
Conference details:
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019.
Time: Half-day (afternoon). Registration/coffee: 12-12.50pm, conference 12.50pm – 5.15pm (includes a 30 minute coffee break/networking session).
Venue: Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich, Germany
Delegate prices: £355/€395/US$445, plus any applicable taxes and fees*
Delegate bookings and payments via PayPal can be made by clicking here.
*Prices advertised exclude a 3.5% booking fee. UK and EU delegates may be subject to VAT. Delegates who register to attend the conference are also entitled to a 10% discount off the recently published in-depth report “Automotive Leather – a modern and sustainable industry”. For more information please click here or to purchase contact Maria Wallace: maria@edifydigitalmedia.com.
All presentations will be in English only. The conference is organised by International Leather Maker (ILM) and is sponsored by TFL, Zschimmer & Schwarz and JBS Couros. theSauerReport is an event supporter. Click here to see the confirmed speaker programme.
