Highlights from the leather division, JBS Couros, include:

• Leather ID, a traceability platform that provides access to origin from the farm to the final product and is used by 1,300 customers

• Kind Leather, which was developed in Brazil in 2019 and was verified with a Life Cycle Assessment study

• the launch of JBS V-Block technology, which inactivates the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes covid-19.

JBS Couros is the world's largest leather producer and has tanneries and facilities in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, the US and Mexico.

During 2020, the Brazilian group also launched its Transparent Livestock Farming Platform, JBS Fund for the Amazon and Global Anticorruption Policy. It also announced a target of having net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.