Winner of the first IULTCS Merit Award dies
09/10/2018
IULTCS, the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies, launched its Merit Award in 2005 as a means of recognising “those of stature in our industry who have contributed significantly to our global understanding of the leather industry and its by-products and those who have excelled in promoting the aims and objectives of our society”. Dr Sykes was named as the first winner of the award in 2007.
An eminent researcher and teacher for decades, Dr Sykes’s work took him to institutions including the National Leathersellers College in London and the British Leather Manufacturers’ Research Association (BLMRA), which, in 1983, merged with the British Leather Federation to form BLC, of which he became director.
Robert Sykes was a regular contributor to industry journals and delivered the John Arthur Wilson Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Leather Chemists Association in 1971.
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