‘A Future for European Leather’ begins with Bucharest seminar
24/04/2015
At the start of the event in the Romanian capital COTANCE secretary general, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, said the leather industry is an essential part of the European economy, but he said social dialogue was necessary because tanners and their workforces need to work together to find “strategies that will allow us still to be here in 2025 and beyond”.
Main speakers at the seminar included Mike Redwood from the University of Northampton, Paul Pearson, secretary of the International Council of Tanners and Guido Nelissen, an industrial policy expert at industriAll. Concentrating on industrial issues, they set out how major trends such as urbanisation, demographics and technological innovation may affect the production and consumption of leather in the next ten years.
‘A Future for European Leather’ will continue with further seminars in Paris on June 19, Alcanena on October 27 and London on December 10 this year, with, respectively, social affairs, trade and the environment as the themes. A final conference to sum up the discussions at the four seminars will take place in Brussels in February 2016.
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