Erretre celebrates 40 years and announces a “new way of thinking”
10/09/2014
Speaking at an event to celebrate Erretre’s fortieth anniversary at the company’s headquarters in Arzignano on September 9, chief executive, Antonio Galiotto, said: “We are no longer taking things from the point of view of what a machine can do. Instead, we want to think first about the processes tanners need to carry out and working from there to build machines that can help.”
Most famous for milling drums and for spray-finishing lines, Erretre aims to develop new products in future and, naturally, to gain market share if it can. It wants to use the knowledge and experience it has gained from working with tanners since 1974 to help tanners achieve better yield and greater consistency in their finished leather, without compromising on the volumes they need and want to produce.
Mr Galiotto said careful, detailed, science-based analysis of what happens to hides during the tanning process was the key. By way of an example, he said that better knowledge and control of the relative humidity inside a hide would allow tanners to improve the consistency of their finished leather.
He mentioned to leatherbiz at the event that he agreed with comments suggesting that, following many decades of focus on leather chemistry, it was important for the industry to pay close attention also to the physics involved in producing leather. “This is exactly the case,” he said. “The challenge is to explain it well and help everyone in the leather industry understand.”
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