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Tender opened for Solofra treatment plant upgrade

Published: April 7, 2022

A tender has been published by the Campania Region for upgrades to the Solofra central waste treatment facilities.

Tanneries du Puy under renovation

Published: January 5, 2021

Hermès Cuirs Précieux, a division of French luxury group Hermès, has decided to carry out renovation works at Tanneries du Puy, located in Chadrac, south-central France.

Strategy direction in the snow

Published: December 22, 2020

Some years ago, I was invited to attend a UNIDO meeting high in the snows of the mountains of Austria. A group had been convened to look at future planning and I was to talk about the leather industry in which one arm of UNIDO works.

New addition to Leather Naturally’s Board of Management

Published: June 18, 2020

Federico Roth is the latest edition to Leather Naturally’s Board of Management. He will support Luis Zugno in the Education team.

Works complete for Northampton’s new International Leather Centre

Published: September 18, 2019

The brand new International Leather Centre will house the Institute for Creative Leather Technologies.

AICC to hold conference on leather sustainability

Published: July 2, 2019

The Italian Association of Leather Chemists (AICC) will be holding a conference in Tuscany on July 5.

Kanpur tanneries ordered immediate closure

Published: November 22, 2018

The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board gave notice to almost 300 tanneries operating in the Jajmau, Kanpur area, for immediate closure on November 20 on effluent discharge grounds.

Renovation works at veg-tan Consortium new headquarters

Published: April 28, 2017

The Italian Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium has announced renovation works have begun for its new headquarters, to be located in a historical building in Ponte a Egola, Tuscany.

Green activists monitor tannery relocations

Published: February 26, 2016

Local, non-profit environmental organisations have submitted a field observation report to government authorities claiming that over half of the tanneries to be relocated are failing to advance construction works.

Tannery relocation fixed for June 2016

Published: January 13, 2016

After the announcement of a 72-hour ultimatum by Bangladesh’s Minister of Industry on Sunday (January 10), the relocation of tanneries should now be completed in June 2016.