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COTANCE completes ‘The Future of European Leather’ conference series

10/12/2015
The leather industry’s representative body to the European Commission, COTANCE, completed the series of four seminars on the the future of European leather with an event in Glasgow on December 10. Three conferences in the series had already taken place, in Bucharest in April, Paris in June and Alcanena in October.

For the Glasgow event, the main theme was environmental management; one keynote presentation came from Tony Covington, emeritus professor of leather science at the University of Northampton, who spoke on the subject of how sustainable the leather industry is, while industry consultant Federico Brugnoli gave an account of the detailed work he has done to determine the carbon footprint of leather.

COTANCE will bring the series to a conclusion with a final wrap-up conference in Brussels on February 2, 2016. It has arranged the series in partnership with trade union organisation industriAll, which it refers to as its social partner.

At the Brussels conference, the social partners will present what they have called a joint manifesto with conclusions and recommendations derived from the 2015 seminars. A high-level audience is expected with major stakeholders from the industry and officials from the European Community institutions.



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