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Fighting against the abuse of data

Mike Redwood Published: April 4, 2023

Mike Redwood highlights some of the battles that we’ve had to face against misleading data over the years, and the work the leather industry has done to combat this problem. Read More...

Artificial intelligence in the tanners toolkit

Mike Redwood Published: January 24, 2023

In this week’s Redwood comment, Mike Redwood looks at the role of AI and how it can be used to understand and analyse data, to help us consider how the leather industry and the world in general are evolving.

Process efficiency from Erretre

Published: December 15, 2022

Italy-based tannery machinery and software solutions provider Erretre says that the Covid pandemic has changed the way the company, its customers and suppliers now approach the market.

Growth projections jump for Brazilian footwear

Published: September 8, 2022

According to the Brazilian Association for the Footwear Industries (Abicalçados), growth projections have increased due to recovering markets.

Record June figure for cattle on feed in the U.S.

Published: June 29, 2022

Further underlining the supply and demand imbalance in the global leather industry, the latest data from the USDA shows record monthly figures for June 1, 2022, for cattle and calves on feed in the U.S..

All that for a drop of positivity

Published: June 16, 2022

Deputy Editor Tom Hogarth discusses the recent New York Times article which criticised the Higg Index, and the realities of generating positive press for leather.

Organisations unite for largest leather supply chain mapping project

Published: November 22, 2021

A collaboration between the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Leather Working Group (LWG) and the Gibbs Land Use and Environment Lab (GLUE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), will tackle deforestation and its links to leather supply chains.

LWG launches leather lifecycle assessment study

Published: November 12, 2021

The Leather Working Group (LWG) has announced what is reportedly the largest lifecycle assessment (LCA) for the leather industry to investigate the environmental impact of leather made in LWG-certified facilities.

Certification for Stahl LCA systems

Published: November 11, 2021

The global leather chemicals manufacturer has achieved certification of its lifecycle assessment (LCA) data generation systems, a step towards its target of having LCA data for all strategic products by the end of 2023.

LWG collaboration with common treatment plants for data transparency

Published: November 8, 2021

The Leather Working Group (LWG) has announced a plan to collaborate directly with CETPs and METPs to collect effluent data centrally.