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Bangladesh government to set up bonded warehouse

Published: December 9, 2022

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said that the government is planning to set up a bonded warehouse for the leather sector to aid exports.

Ministry rejects tanners’ tax holiday appeal

Published: May 21, 2018

In April, the Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA) had asked the country’s revenue authorities to declare tax holiday for next seven to ten years for the tanning sector, as well as an import tariff exemption on 31 different chemicals for leather.

LIA Lab Director on TV programme about leather upholstery

Published: October 12, 2017

Steve Lange, Director of the Leather Research Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati, U.S., participated in a local television programme to help consumers identify the differences between furniture upholstery made with ‘bonded leather’ and genuine ‘leather’.

ECCO introduces bonded leather material

Published: September 8, 2017

Netherlands headquartered tanning division of ECCO, ECCO Leather, has teamed up with U.S. fibre supplier DSM Dyneema to co-develop a new bonded leather material with the properties of premium leather; claimed to be the thinnest yet strongest leather on the market.

Attacking bonded leather

Published: February 21, 2017

Just seven days ago, I used this column to discuss a two-year-old UK advertising case to discuss definitions of leather and issues with what gets called "bonded" leather. Within an hour, by pure coincidence, a colleague sent me a copy of an article from the U.S. on exactly the same subject.

Preliminary lawsuit settlement over defective bonded leather furniture

Published: February 17, 2017

A preliminary settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed against Florida based Kane's Furniture that accused the retailer of failing to honour lifetime warranties for defective "bonded leather" furniture that peeled, flaked and deteriorated.

Bonded leather problems lead to lawsuit

Published: March 18, 2015

A Florida based furniture retailer is taking legal action against one of its suppliers blaming peeling and flaking leather for over 1,000 customer complaints. The supplier has been using coated bonded leather rather than the genuine leather.