USHSLA names new chairman
07/10/2014
Mr Zitnik has worked in the US hides and skins industry for 37 years and founded Forth Worth-based Texpac Hide & Skin in 1992. His company is a processor of brine-cured cattle hides and pig and sow skins. It works with raw material from the south-west region of the US. He comes from a long line of family members involved in the US hides and skins industry.
At the Chicago meeting he said: “The global leather industry is entering a new phase of challenges and opportunities, and I look forward to working with fellow USHSLA members and industry colleagues to address those issues directly.”
Despite travel disruptions, nearly 100 industry representatives were in attendance at the 2014 USHSLA Annual Meeting and Convention. Keynote presentations were delivered by Kerry Broznya of footwear group Wolverine World Wide, Dr Lily Edwards-Callaway of packer and tanning group JBS, and by Simon Yarwood, chief executive of World Trades Publishing, the company that publishes World Leather magazine and leatherbiz, and runs the Tannery of the Year Awards programme.
Leather Industries of America (LIA) co-located its annual meeting with the USHSLA event and participated in a number of joint activities. The LIA has met continuously as an organisation for 98 years. The two groups have a long history of co-operation on issues affecting the entire hide, skin and leather manufacturing sector in the US.
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