Leather industry could have saved Reutlingen, Covington insists
17/12/2015
Speaking at the COTANCE ‘The Future of Leather Event’ in Glasgow on December 10, Professor Covington said a new entity incorporating the leather department of the university, the tannery it runs to give students hands-on experience of making leather, Northampton’s leather conservation centre and elements of the city’s leather museum would be one of the fruits of the university’s move to a new site in the centre of Northampton in 2018.
He told delegates at the COTANCE event that industry support for the project was needed and emphasised the importance of the university’s role in preparing a new generation of leather scientists, especially since the demise of the Lederinstitut Gerberschule Reutlingen in Germany, which closed in 2011 after failing to secure sufficient financial support. “The industry could have saved Reutlingen,” Professor Covington insisted.
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