Senior figure in US leather manufacturing retires

16/11/2018
The chief operating officer of tanning company Wickett & Craig, Prasad Inaganti, retired at the end of October.

Mr Inaganti completed his training as a leather technologist in his native India but spent his entire working life in the US, arriving in 1971. His first job was at calf leather
specialist A. F. Gallun & Sons in Milwaukee and, except for a two-year spell at leather chemicals firm Rohm and Haas, he worked at Gallun until it closed in 1993.

He moved then to Pennsylvania then to work for Howes Leather, later becoming the owner after a buy-out. In 2003, Howes had to close and Mr Inaganti moved to Wickett & Craig.