Plastic is leather’s enemy, Assomac president says

17/07/2019
Italy’s association of manufacturers of footwear, leathergoods and tanning technologies, Assomac, was one of the sponsors of the World Leather Congress, which took place in New York on July 16.

Addressing the congress, the organisation’s president, Gabriella Marchioni Bocca, chief executive of Turin-based splitting band knife manufacturer Lamebo, said leather manufacturers have to keep trying to put across to the public a message praising the naturalness of leather.

“If tanners need help doing that,” she said, “Assomac can provide it. “Leather is natural, plastic is not, and we have to keep shouting about that. Plastic is our enemy.”