Spoor signs up first furniture brand for its traceable leather
Danish furniture brand Fredericia is the latest to offer its customers 100% traceable leather in a select range of products. It has signed up with traceable hide supplier Spoor, whose laser-technology based system for marking and identifying hides allows finished product manufacturers to pinpoint where the leather in a specific item came from.
Spoor’s technology offers Fredericia and other companies the ability to guarantee that the leather in their products comes from cattle from specific geographies and even specific farms.
“It is important for us to know the origin of the materials we use in our production,” said the furniture brand’s head of design, Rasmus Graversen. “When we were contacted by Spoor and heard about their technology, we felt that it matched our approach to responsible material use.”
He explained that it take four large hides to cover some of the sofas in Fredericia’s Børge Mogensen sofa (named after its founding designer) and that, as the company had had for years a strong focus on traceability of the wood it uses in its products, it was happy now to be able to offer “even more detailed traceability on leather”.
This project uses semi-processed hides from Spoor that go to Arzignano-based high-end upholstery leather manufacturer Industria Conciaria Arzignanese (ICA) for finishing.
Spoor’s business development director, Birgitte Langer, said it had been “extremely rewarding” to work on this project with Fredericia. She said the partners were witnessing increasing demand for transparency and responsibility in the market and that this project was one way to address that.
