01Nov 2020

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 ...
23Oct 2020

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...
08Oct 2020

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...
28Sep 2020

15Sep 2020
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...
02Sep 2020

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...
02Sep 2020

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...
09Jul 2020

The Textile-Clothing-Leather-Footwear partnership issues a Joint Declaration on the economic impact of Covid-19 in their sectors.Read the document here.
10Jun 2020

In Italy, last Thursday 28 May 2020, the Council of Ministers approved the long-awaited Decree protecting the term “leatherâ€. The new law imposes a ban on the deceptive use of the term “leather†(“pelle†e “cuoio†in Italian language) when a...
31Mar 2020

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...