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COTANCE demands protection for the term ‘leather’

08/12/2017
COTANCE demands protection for the term ‘leather’
COTANCE has written to the European Commission to complain about companies’ misuse of the term leather in their statements to consumers about synthetic materials. The companies that come in for criticism include sports brand Nike for the coated leather fibre material it has called ‘Flyleather’.

Writing to Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European Commissioner for the internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs, COTANCE secretary general, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, enclosed a statement that his organisation had drafted with trade union organisation industriAll-Europe.

He told the commissioner: “There are countless examples of the abusive use of the term ‘leather’, and the imagination of abusers has no limits. The threat is real and the risks for our businesses, workers and consumers cannot be ignored.”

We have reproduced the COTANCE statement in full in our blog section.

Image: Pittards

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