04Jun 2024

TCLF Joint Statement on European Elections
On June 4, 2024, the European Commission’s DG GROW hosted a stakeholder event for the TCLF sectors to discuss updates on some of the key initiatives of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, the ...
27May 2024

Enhancing African Leather Exports to the EU under the MARKUP II Initiative
Nairobi, 23 May 2024: COTANCE Secretary General Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano reported on the challenges and opportunities of the EUDR for African leather exports to the EU as pa...
23May 2024

COTANCE Urges the European Commission to Review the Timeline for the implementation of the EUDR Information System
On May 17, 2024, COTANCE together with 13 other European industrial organizations concerned by the EUDR sent a letter to Commission President...
21May 2024

COTANCE Press Release
Manuel Rios re-elected COTANCE President
The Assembly General held on Wednesday 15 May 2024 in Brussels re-elected unanimously Manuel Rios Navarro to continue guiding COTANCE during the next two years.
CEO of INPELSA, the ...
17May 2024
Final Conference of the Green Deal Leather Project
Brussels, 16 May 2024
Today in Brussels, the European Tanning and Leather social partners, COTANCE and industriAll Europe held the Green Deal Leather Final Conference, concluding a two-year, EU-fund...
17May 2024
Apple Abandons FineWoven: Leather Alternatives Prove to Be an Expensive Illusion
When COTANCE Member associations of Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, Hungary and UK met in Council on May 15, 2024 in Brussels, they addressed among the many burning t...
30Apr 2024

Press Release
ECHA apologizes for Misleading Claims: Leather and Footwear Industries Urge Further Action for Transparency
Brussels, 30 April 2024 - Following the complaint of the European Leather (COTAN...
24Apr 2024

A European Collaborative Effort Towards Skills Enhancement in the TCLF Industries
On the 18th and 19th of April, private and public organisations from 11 countries (BE, DE, FR, GR, IT, PL, PT, RO, SE, SP and UA) representing the European textile, clothing,...
04Apr 2024

SkillBridge Launch: A Significant Boost For The TCLF Industries
Brussels, 2 April 2024 – In the context of the EU TCLF Pact for Skills, EURATEX will work together with CEC and COTANCE to support the creation of regional partnerships in the area skill...
04Apr 2024

Final Conference - Brussels - 16 May 2024
The Green Deal Leather project will conclude with a Final Conference in Brussels on Thursday 16 May (morning).
Two panels will be organised on safety in tannery workplaces and the carbon footprint of bovine leathe...