UNIC publishes sustainability report for 2020
Italy’s national tanning industry association, UNIC, has published its sustainability report for 2020.
UNIC said at the start of the report that it sees Italy’s leather manufacturing sector as being at the forefront of the change that is required to establish a new way of doing business, one based on the circular economy.
Among Italian tanners, it said, innovation, creativity, style and know-how combine particularly well to create value.
It explained that it had wanted to devote part of the report to explaining what leather is, meaning “the particular characteristics that leather has and that other materials cannot imitate”.
According to UNIC, much of the communication about leather and materials that can substitute for it is misleading. “For this reason,” it said, “accurate information aimed at those with an economic interest in this and, above all, at consumers, will be increasingly important.”
Leather, the report insists, is 100% renewable, 100% natural in its origin and 99.5% derived from by-products. The other 0.5% relates to the raw material for some exotic leather that UNIC has said is not always classifiable as a by-product.
Image: Conceria Montebello.
