Second APLF roundtable focuses on Nothing To Hide
The team from World Leather will take part in a new roundtable debate that the APLF Academy will present on April 23.
With the APLF exhibition in Hong Kong postponed until November this year, the organisers have set up a digital sourcing platform called Sampleroom and have arranged the APLF Academy as an extensive series of seminars and online discussion panels to coincide with its launch.
In this second debate that World Leather has facilitated, the guests are the vice-president of procurement at tanning group PrimeAsia, Ian Scher, secretary to the International Council of Tanners, Dr Kerry Senior, and the president of the Leather and Hide Council of America Stephen Sothmann.
In 2014, World Leather launched Nothing To Hide, a series of open-source essays to explain the leather industry to the wider world. There are 15 essays in the series.
At the start of 2021, the magazine began updating the series and the first two essays for which there are now new versions examine the supply of hides and animal welfare. Everyone can read those and the other essays in the series at nothing-to-hide.org.
To coincide with the new essays coming out, the APLF Academy debate focuses on those two subjects.
It examines questions such as the availability of hides, the importance for the fight against climate change for the material to be made into leather rather than go to waste, the links between animal welfare and the growing demand for traceability and transparency in the leather supply chain and the role that leather manufacturers are now playing in promoting the best possible treatment of the animals that supply their raw material.
The discussion can be accessed here. It starts at 20.00 Hong Kong time, 13.00 UK time, 08.00 Eastern time in the US.
