19Mar 2025

Women in Tanneries: Special Womens’ 2nd Edition - Full Interviews
March is all about celebrating women—their strength, their ambition, and their impact. After the overwhelming success of our March 2024 edition, we knew we had to make this a tradition....
14Mar 2025

COTANCE at APLF 2025 – Hong Kong
March 11, 2025: ahead of APLF 2025, COTANCE attended the International Council of Tanners (ICT) meeting, uniting national associations from Europe (UK, Italy, France, Spain), the USA, Türkiye, China, Japan, Braz...
28Feb 2025

Amici per la Pelle highlights the younger generation’s passion for leather
If you attended Lineapelle but missed the ‘Amici per la Pelle’ contest, you truly missed something special! It was the place to witness the passion and endless possibiliti...
24Feb 2025

Leather Biodegradability: A Key to Sustainable Fashion
We often hear about massive floating "islands" of plastic polluting our oceans. But have you ever wondered why leather is never a part of that conversation?
One simple reason: leather is a natural, bi...
20Feb 2025

The Leather Traceability Cluster endorses Industry-Wide Draft Standard
The Leather Traceability Cluster (LTC) has officially endorsed the essential traceability requirements developed by ICEC, Sustainable Leather Foundation, OEKO-TEX®, and Leather ...
10Feb 2025

PRESS RELEASE
Closing the Skills Gap: AEQUALIS4TCLF Partners Unite to Strenghten TCLF Education
On the 4th and 5th of February, representatives from 19 industry organisations, universities, and VET providers from Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Finla...
04Feb 2025

Aid by Trade Foundation the latest co-signatory of our Joint Statement on Durability in A&F PEFCR
Brussels, February 4, 2025 - We are pleased to welcome Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF)—a non-profit organisation dedicated to sust...
30Jan 2025

Press Release: IULTCS, ICHSLTA & WHL new signatories of the Joint Statement on durability in the A&F PEFCR
Brussels, January 30, 2025 - We are proud to announce that the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies ...
28Jan 2025

Leading by Example: European Leather Industry Demonstrates Safety, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility at ILO International Workshop (Press Release)
Turin, Italy, January 28, 2025 – From January 27–28, 2025, the ITC-ILO Turin Campus became ...
16Jan 2025

The Cotton Industry joins as new co-signatories of our Joint Statement on Durability in A&F PEFCR
Brussels, January 23, 2025 - we are thrilled to welcome the National Spanish Cotton Organization (Centro Algodonero Nacional - C...