World Leather CEO says shipments of wet-salted hides should stop
29/08/2017
During the speech he told the audience that the time had come to stop shipping wet-salted hides from one side of the world to the other, arguing that a restructuring, leading to hides being processed at least as far as wet blue or wet white stage as close to source as possible, is necessary.
He said: “The practice of salting and shipping those hides across oceans before tanners get to work on them needs to stop.”
He argued that carrying out wet-end processing close to slaughter would be a far better way to prevent hide resources from going to waste, would be far more environmentally responsible, would improve the leather industry’s relationships with shipping companies, save money and allow cattle-rearing countries to add more value to their own natural resources.
“We are under severe pressure to improve our environmental footprint without delay,” Mr Yarwood concluded, “and this would represent good progress. Doing nothing is not an option.”
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