Euroleather

Leather Industry Open to Engagement with SAC to Address Higg Index Inaccuracies The coalition of global leather industry bodies, headed by the International Council of Tanners (ICT), welcomes the positive tone and the openness to dialogue expressed by the ...

Final Conference - Presentation of the SER 2020   COTANCE and industriAll-Europe will hold the Final Conference of their EU-sponsored "Leather: Social and Environmental Report: 2020" project as an online event on Tuesday 1st December 2020, 15:00-1...

Leather Industry Unites in Call for Higg Index Score for Leather to be Suspended The global leather industry has formally asked the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) to suspend the score the nonprofit organisation applies to leather in its Higg Materials...

COTANCE General Assembly re-elects Mr Andreas Kindermann to lead Europe’s Leather industry during this turbulent period of Covid-19 Last Monday 7th of September 2020, COTANCE gathered in Vienna (Austria) for its annual meeting with statutory elections on...

Feedback of the European leather industry on the roadmap of the Commission initiative on substantiating environmental claims European tanners supply leather to the most demanding customers in the luxury, fashion, automotive and home decoration sectors. Lea...

On 31 August 2020, the European Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear industries provided the European Commission with their position paper in response to the publication of the new EU Skills Agenda published last July. The document can be downloaded on t...

The Textile-Clothing-Leather-Footwear partnership issues a Joint Declaration on the economic impact of Covid-19 in their sectors.Read the document here.  

In Italy, last Thursday 28 May 2020, the Council of Ministers approved the long-awaited Decree protecting the term “leather”. The new law imposes a ban on the deceptive use of the term “leather” (“pelle” e “cuoio” in Italian language) when a...

Europe’s Leather Industry mourns the loss of Silvino Navarro Silvino Navarro Vidal was one of the two faces of Spain’s leather industry in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Andrés Colomer, in Vic brought the Spanish sheepskin sector to reign over World marke...