18Nov 2013

Introduction to the PEFCR Pilot Leather
COTANCE has been awarded the opportunity to conducting one of the 14 EU Pilots selected among some 90 candidates aiming at developing Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for non-food/feed products....
11Oct 2013

The COTANCE Bologna Council sends an alarm message to European trade authorities on raw material prices
Bologna hosted on October 11, 2013, on the sideline of the Lineapelle Fair, the autumn Council of COTANCE gathering representatives from Italy, Spain, F...
11Apr 2013

COTANCE Presidency calls for official monitoring of the critical shortage of hides & skins on the EU market that drives prices to unsustainable levels
The COTANCE Presidency met on April 3, 2013 in Bologna under the chairmanship of Mr Rino Mastrotto (R...
11Feb 2013

COTANCE is a founding member of CheMI.
CheMI is a platform for downstream users of chemicals in manufacturing industries. It works as a channel for the downstream users in article producing industries to represent their interests and aims at contributing...
11Feb 2013

COTANCE calls on the European Commission not to delay the procedures for regulating at EU level the use of leather terms and the labelling including origin of leather products within the current legislature
The COTANCE Council met on February 18, 2013 in B...
18Oct 2012
The COTANCE Presidency meets Industry Commissioner and Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani
On July 30, 2012, Industry Commissioner and Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani received in Brussels the recently elected COTANCE President Rino Mastrotto....
11Oct 2012

COTANCE launches its Permanent Leather Promotion CampaignThat’s Life, That’s Leather!
After offering in Shanghai the licensing of its Campaign material free of charge in the newly established Executive Committee of ICT, COTANCE decided, in its Buchares...
11Oct 2012

COTANCE welcomes the results of the UNIDO Leather Panel Meeting in Shanghai on Eco-Footprinting of Leather
At its Autumn Council meeting held in Bucharest on 26 September 2012, COTANCE delegates from Italy (UNIC), Spain (ACEXPIEL), France (FFTM), Germany (...
11Dec 2011

Launch of the first European Sector Council on Education Training & Employmentin the Textile Clothing and Leather
On 6th December 2011 in Brussels was launched the first European Sectoral Council on Education Training & Employment in front of Inter...
20Sep 2011

COTANCE complains against the adoption by the EU of a penalising descriptor for Leather on Textile clothing labels
The representatives of the European Leather Industry meeting in Council in Rome regret the approval of the EU Regulation on Textile Names and...