ATC happy to help Cameroon re-establish leather production
29/04/2013
They said that the leather industry in Cameroon died out 20 years ago but that the government now felt the time was right to start building it up again, which it hopes to do by attracting private-sector operators to the African country. Cameroon has an annual slaughter rate of 3.2 million head of cattle.
Mr Gualino said that he was confident ATC could help the delegation from Cameroon. He explained: “We work with large international luxury groups and our quality credentials are well known. So we have technical knowledge of how to make high-quality leather that we can share and we are in a good position to give advice on how Cameroon can develop its own leather industry.”
He said that, in the first instance, Cameroon should ban the export of raw hides and start turning them into semi-finished hides on home soil. Operators in Cameroon would be able to do this without having to install too much equipment, Mr Gualino said, and, having taken the material to wet blue or crust, they would have a product that is easier to store and of higher export value.
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