Leather pipeline: Skins market begins long-awaited recovery
11/07/2017
Stocks are not able to keep up with demand, and the market for goat skins is also improving.
However, this is not enough to mitigate falling demand elsewhere in the industry, and it is difficult for tanneries and suppliers to make decisions until the buyers return with their orders in September.
“Given that standard leathers continue to be highly price sensitive and the price of oil (the base for many alternative materials) hasn’t risen significantly, it is unlikely the prices for leather can be raised. There also no hope for any decline in the cost of manufacturing and transportation, so logic states that returns for raw material will stay stable at best,” says the author.
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