COTANCE president re-elected
The chief executive of Spanish double-face and nappa producer Inpelsa, Manuel Ríos Navarro, has been re-elected as president of COTANCE, the leather industry’s main representative body in the European Union.
COTANCE chose Mr Ríos as its president in 2020, but owing to the covid-19 pandemic, it was September 2021 before he was able to take up the role. He won re-election at a COTANCE meeting in Brussels on May 15.
Vice-presidents of the organisation will be Jean-Christophe Muller, chief executive of Tannerie Haas in France, Fabrizio Nuti, who runs the Nuti Ivo group of tanneries, and Rino Mastrotto of Rino Mastrotto Group.
Afterwards, Manuel Ríos said: “European leather is the smart choice. The general public is presented too often with news and images that cast a shadow over the leather industry. But we know that the leather industry in Europe will only have a future if it treats people and the environment well.”
