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SER20 - The Steering Committee holds it first meeting in the framework of the new Social Dialogue project that aims the drafting of the 2nd European Social and Environmental Report.   The delegates from ACEXPIEL (ES), AHLI (HU), APPBR (RO), FFTM (F...

The European Social Partners of the Leather Industry kick off their new common project: Leather: European Social and Environmental Report 2020 On 7 February 2019, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano (COTANCE) and Laurent Zibell (industriAll-European trade  union...

Fashion World's Challenges - Looking for Qualification, Occupations…and the right skills in the TCLF sectors “For many years our first priority was to win customers and to keep our mill busy. Now our first priority is to find (and retain) skilled emp...

The SELAMBQ project takes stock of the first year of activity and is projected into the second year operational phase. Activated at the end of 2017, SELAMBQ (Spanish Entrefino Lamb Quality) is a multi-year cooperation program that comes from the need to fi...

The Social Partners of the European Leather industry met on 30 October 2018 for reviewing the overall results of their joint project on Due Diligence for Health & Safety at tannery workplaces. COTANCE and industriAll-Europe are pleased with the success...

COTANCE call on Helsinki Fashion Week to reconsider its decision to ban leather as of 2019 Helsinki fashion week founder, Evelyn Mora, announced that leather would be banned from her show as of 2019. The press reports that the decision was to take “an ac...

COTANCE President Kindermann in Brussels for defending leather authenticity On Thursday 5 July 2018, COTANCE President Andreas Kindermann (Wollsdorf Leather, Austria) was received by DG GROW Director Slawomir Tokarski for addressing the state of play of th...

 Blueprint “Skills4Smart TCLF 2030” Second Partners’ Meeting: Looking for Excellence in VET At a time when youth unemployment, ageing-workforce and skills shortage become some of the major challenges facing the Textile, Clothing, Leather, and Fo...

Andreas Kindermann becomes President of COTANCE in Verona   Austrian Andreas Kindermann, CEO of Wollsdorf Leather, was unanimously elected by his peers as President of COTANCE at the General Assembly that took place on 29 May in Verona (Italy). Mr Ki...

The WORTH project makes the leather sector its priority COTANCE calls for candidates in the leather sector to take advantage of the promotional (and financial) opportunities offered by the WORTH Project. The European Commission has launched the second cal...