New structure for tanning industry bodies in Spain
02/08/2010
The change means that Acexpiel will now be the representative body of the tanning industry in Spain. Its members agreed the move at a meeting in Barcelona at the end of July. The organisation will continue to have its headquarters in Barcelona.
Acexpiel will continue to carry out its previous function of promoting Spanish leather in export markets, for example by helping Spanish tanners take part in international exhibitions, trade delegations and advertising campaigns.
The move is aimed at restructuring and rationalising the Spanish industry’s representation at home and abroad, and improving the support member companies, the tanneries, receive.
Regional tanning industry bodies are free to continue their own activities, but Acexpiel has made it clear that tanneries across Spain will work with the national body directly from now on, rather than connect to the national organisation through their regional associations. While CEC-FECUR worked as a confederation of the different regional associations, Acexpiel will work more directly with individual tanners. The organisation said at the time of the announcement that the current size of the leather industry in Spain and the reduced resources of many of the regional bodies were among the main drivers of the new set-up.
Acexpiel’s current president, Jaume Alvira, will continue in the role until the organisation meets again in a few months to hold new elections.
The latest figures from CEC-FECUR show that there are currently 97 tanneries in operation in Spain, 57 of them in Catalonia, 27 in Valencia, nine in Murcia, three in Aragon and one in the Basque Country.
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