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All African Leather Fair 2022 to go ahead

Published: July 25, 2022

The Ethiopian Leather Industries Association (ELIA) has confirmed that the All African Leather Fair (AALF) will go ahead.

León tanners fearful amid constant robberies

Published: February 18, 2022

According to local news reports, not a single tannery in the San Jorge industrial neighbourhood of León has escaped a robbery in the past two years.

Scottish Leather Group wins aviation seating contract in China

Published: December 7, 2021

The Scotland-based leather manufacturing group has secured a new contract to supply aviation seat covers to an airline in China.

Plans being considered for IILF 2022

Published: November 8, 2021

According to local sources the ITPO is considering going ahead with the 2022 edition of the IILF in Chennai.

ACLE 2020 to go ahead as planned

Published: June 9, 2020

The 23^rd edition of the All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) is to go ahead as originally planned in Shanghai, on September 1-3.

European Fashion Weeks go digital

Published: May 13, 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, after the Shanghai Digital Fashion Week and Helsinki’s Virtual Fashion Week, the organisers of the London, Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks announced their events will also go digital.

Authorities say domestic sewage still polluting Ganges

Published: January 21, 2019

As the 249 registered tanneries located in the industrial district of Jajmau, Kanpur, were ordered shut, or allowed to operate in reduced capacity during Kumbh Mela, some tannery owners are allegedly ‘too scared’ to go to court or have to rely on the inadequate infrastructure set up by the Government to discharge effluents.

JBS expansion plans to target Chinese market

Published: October 11, 2018

The Brazilian meatpacker says its US$12 million expansion plan aims to double the production capacity of two processing units and to better serve the growing exports to China.

Think of the animals and be surprised

Published: August 1, 2018

When I go for a walk from my home, built some 250 years ago in the English countryside, I have two choices. One way I can walk for many kilometres over arable land, where almost every area has been taken to grow a wide variety of constantly rotating crops. In the other direction, a long walk towards the coast over land which is largely at sea level or below; I go through long term grassland and light scrub, lightly grazed by sheep or, far more frequently, cattle.

JBS Couros achieves highest LWG ranking for traceability

Published: February 22, 2018

Brazilian leather processor, JBS Couros, has once again received the top audit traceability award from the Leather Working Group (LWG) for eight out of fifteen of its South American plants.