career

Gruppo Mastrotto awards 15 scholarships

Published: October 7, 2021

The Italy headquartered tanning group has announced it has awarded 15 scholarships to children of its employees who have “particularly distinguished themselves in their educational career”.

Pittards bids farewell to employee after 54 years

Published: September 2, 2021

The UK headquartered tanner and leather goods manufacturer is celebrating the career of Diana Turton, who is leaving the company after 54 years of service.

Law Tanning welcomes new Technical Director

Published: May 13, 2021

Milwaukee-based Law Tanning, specialised in cow and bison hides for leather footwear and accessories, has appointed David Bowmaster as Technical Director.

Education is not preparation for life – it is life

Published: February 17, 2021

I recently read Dr. Tara Westover’s book Educated. Having often travelled to the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City and regularly incorporated it in a longer trip which allowed me to see more of the local area, I was interested to learn about life growing up in rural Idaho and Utah. In one of many interviews she has done since publication, she said that she thought it was wrong to say that education is only to prepare us for life - it was life.

Learning for life

Published: October 21, 2020

The changing nature of work has pushed university education to the forefront in recent years as a prerequisite for survival during a life where few of the jobs available at the start of a career will exist towards the end.

New CEO takes the helm at Moschino

Published: October 2, 2019

The Italian luxury fashion label owned by Aeffe has appointed Stefano Secchi as its new Chief Executive.

Prominent figure from leather chemicals passes away

Published: June 13, 2019

Dr Hubert Wachsmann, a former President of the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS) has passed away.

Big data concepts

Published: July 18, 2018

One of the concepts behind industry 4.0 involves holding, using and sharing large quantities of data to facilitate the speed and efficiency of supply networks. This allows direct contact with a supplier when key inputs, needles for a sewing machine for example, require replenishing. An extreme example would be a Rolls Royce aero engine in a large passenger jet sending diagnostic data during a transatlantic flight to their headquarters in real time.

Leather obsolescence

Published: January 24, 2017

At a Burns Supper (a Scottish traditional dinner to celebrate the poet Robert Burns) organised by my old school last week, I sat next to a classmate who has spent his entire career at the leading edge of the electronics industry. Much of his time was working in Japan alongside the top Japanese companies that drove the sector forward in the 1970s and 1989s.

Obituary: Chris Wade

Published: June 23, 2016

The family of Chris Wade is saddened to inform the leather industry that he passed away on June 16, 2016.