Hope for a sixth tannery in Cuba
19/12/2018
At the time of Batista’s resignation, Cuba was home to 68 tanneries and a thriving domestic footwear manufacturing sector. Now only five tanneries remain, one in the province of Artemisa, three in Villa Clara and one in Camagüey.
However, state leather company, Tenpiel, has told World Leather that it is hoping to increase the number to six in the near future. “We are making an investment to try to recover a leather production facility in the east of the country,” Tenpiel’s technical director, Marcelo Mora, said, “and that will give us six.”
Mr Mora explained that Tenpiel also runs 25 warehouses across Cuba for salting and storing raw hides. At the start of 2017, Cuba’s cattle herd numbered just over 4 million head.
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