COTANCE confirms new president

30/06/2016
The former general manager in Europe of GST AutoLeather, Thomas Bee, is the new president of COTANCE, the tanning industry’s representative body in the European Commission.

Mr Bee has a background in leather chemicals and joined Seton (later GST AutoLeather) in 2000. He worked there until the end of 2014, when he left to run Schafstall Holding, a Mülheim-based hide supply company.

He will be the president of COTANCE until 2018.

Vice-presidents over the same period will be Jonathan Muirhead of the Scottish Leather Group, Hugues Pichon of Tanneries Roux and Rino Mastrotto of the Rino Mastrotto Group.