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Lectra puts a figure on global leather production

26/05/2011
According to statistics compiled by its own research team, leather industry technology provider Lectra puts the amount of leather produced annually by tanneries across the world at 2 billion square-metres, around 21.5 billion square-feet.

Lectra chief executive, Daniel Harari, mentioned the figure during a talk he gave to journalists about his company's latest leather-cutting solution, Leather Suite V3R1, at an event in Frankfurt on May 24.

He explained that his company's own leather sector experts, Christophe Gaysse and Magali Lesage, whose industry knowledge has gone into the new solution, have monitored available slaughter stats across the world and calculated the figure from there, working out the amount of leather tanners would be able to make from the hides and skins produced as a by-product of the meat industry.

Mr Gaysse confirmed that the figure pertains to all types of leather, inlcuding sheep, goat and ostrich, and not just bovine.


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