Tokyo veg-tan leather event a success
01/12/2016
Speakers on the day included Simone Remi, president of consortium and owner of San Miniato-based tannery Conceria Badalassi Carlo, and Paolo Testi, member of the consortium’s board and owner of the Conceria La Bretagna tannery in Ponte a Egola. The audience also heard from Stefano Pinori, who represents tanning agent suppliers on the consortium and is managing director of Castelfranco di Sotto-based veg-tan chemicals supplier Figli di Guido Lapi.
Together, they presented detailed information on how vegetable-tanned leather is produced and the advantages and disadvantages it offers compared to chrome-tanned leather.
The session concluded with a press conference, during which each of the speakers gave more detail of the veg-tan production process and of the uses to which finished product manufacturers can put the material in answer to a long series of questions from specially invited journalists in the room.
At the end of the event, the Consorzio presented its ‘Craft The Leather’ prize for 2016 to Zhan Xuan Pan, a student at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo. The Consorzio has run ‘Craft The Leather’ each year since 2011 as an outreach project in which it invites teachers and students from leading fashion schools around the world to come to Tuscany and experience veg-tanned leather first hand.
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