Lanxess reveals programme details for January leather industry seminar
21/12/2016
With a target audience of, mainly, finished product brands, Lanxess will devote the event to promoting the qualities of leather as a substrate, emphasising what sets leather apart from alternative materials.
The company has said it drew its inspiration for this theme from the most recent meeting of the Global Leather Coordinating Committee (GLCC), the umbrella body that includes representatives from the International Council of Hide, Skins and Leather Traders Associations (ICHSLTA), the International Council of Tanners (ICT) and the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS). In Shanghai in September 2016, GLCC members agreed to work more closely together on initiatives aimed at educating brands about leather’s properties and current best practice in the global leather production industry.
So far, 75 brand representatives have registered to attend and Lanxess wants them all to leave at the end with the clear message that “leather works”.
With regard to the programme, the general manager of research and testing organisation Oeko-Tex, Georg Dieners, will use the occasion to present formally the new Oeko-Tex leather standard. There will also be a series of short presentations from Ivan Kral from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, from footwear retail group Deichmann, from senior representatives of Lanxess itself and from German tanner Thomas Heinen on his company’s Terracare brand of leather. Terracare is the brand name that the Heinen tannery applies to all its finished leather, saying that the name defines its production standards: environmentally-friendly, resource-efficient and socially compatible, using raw materials from Germany.
The host company’s vice-president for leather innovation and industry relations at Lanxess, Dr Dietrich Tegtmeyer, has said he hopes also to close the seminar with an interactive question-and-answer session.
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