Students visit Silvateam
06/07/2011
The visit was the idea of Silvateam’s leather business unit manager, Eric Poles. In all, 25 students and staff at the university took up his invitation to visit the factory in San Michele Mondovì, in the province of Cuneo, at the foot of the Italian Alps.
Its location near Alpine chestnut forests has helped Silvateam develop expertise in producing chestnut extracts for the tanning industry; the company uses around 350,000 cubic-metres of chestnut wood each year to produce around 15,000 tonnes of chestnut extract, used to tan leather for high-end footwear, leathergoods and automotive upholstery.
Technicians from the company demonstrated to the Northampton students the use of these and other Silvateam products in the experimental tannery it has on site.
The company said afterwards that the visit had given the students the possibility to have a look at the world of work and to understand its ever-increasing diversity.
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