New Turkish leather fair dates clash with Chennai events

25/11/2016
As reported in September, the organisers of the Istanbul Leather Fair cancelled the 2016 event, scheduled to take place in November. After running the event for ten years, organiser, Arti, said it had hopes of restarting the fair in 2017.

Now, however, the Turkish Exporters Council, the Turkish Leather Foundation, the Leather and Leather Products Exporters Union and the Leather Garment Producers Association and important exporters of the sector have reached an agreement with UBM (the organiser of the APLF exhibition in Hong Kong and of the All China Leather Fair in Shanghai) to set up a completely new event called Alleather-IDF.

The new exhibition will run for the first time from February 1-3, 2017 at the CNR Expo Center in the Yesilkoy district of Istanbul. The dates coincide with the 2017 edition of the India International Leather Fair in Chennai (February 1-3), which this year will also host the IULTCS Global Congress (February 5-8).