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Tanning cluster in Turkey to close down

22/02/2017
The tanning zone at Manisa in western Turkey is to fold. It has been active for the last 25 years with 40 tanneries operating at its peak, most of them producing nappa leathers from sheepskin for garments. The cluster had a combined tanning capacity of 12 million skins per year.

Tanners in the region have said high labour and production costs and a lack of demand for the leather they produce has caused a sharp decrease in the number of active tanneries in Manisa. So few are operating now that operating the common effluent treatment plant has become impossible owing to very low wet-end productions.

Now the board of the company that runs the cluster has announced that tanners will sell their land on the 250,000 square-metre site to construction companies. These companies will build homes on the land and leather production in Manisa will become a thing of the past.



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