Game tannery back in business
11/01/2013
The Uber Tanning Company, based in Owatonna in the south of the state, had been tanning big game and making clothing and accessories from the leather for more than a century when the founding family sold to entrepreneur Jared Rinerson in 2006.
However, Mr Rinerson ran into financial difficulties and the operation closed down in the summer of 2012.
In October, a member of the founding family, Lanny Uber, took the business over again and has renamed it, for the time being anyway, Century Leather Products. He has reopened the tannery and a nearby leathergoods workshop and has rehired many former members of staff.
In addition, Mr Uber has spent the autumn taking in new hides from recent hunting trips while trying to work through a backlog of hides customers had sent in before production stopped. He has spoken to local media about the difficulties involved in this, but has said he fully understands how important it can be for families to have a memento of someone’s first deer or, in some cases, their last.
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