Court approves Inpelsa take-over of Tenerías Omega operation
Spanish double-face and nappa producer Inpelsa has won court approval to take over the tannery that Tenerías Omega ran in Navarra in northern Spain until last year.
Valencia-based Inpelsa is run by current COTANCE president, Manuel Ríos Navarro. It will relaunch the Tenerías Omega business as Inpelsa Calf.
As part of the deal, Inpelsa will take on 44 of the 79 employees that Tenerías Omega had when it closed down in September. Fifteen members of staff will return to work initially to carry out any necessary maintenance on machinery that has remained unused since the autumn.
Inpelsa said it was excited to begin a new chapter in its own history and added that, after meeting the Tenerías Omega employees, visiting the tannery in the town of Villatuerta, 40 kilometres south-west of Pamplona, and seeing the set-up, it was confident of being able to help the operation there reclaim a prominent place in the European leather market.
Its aim is for operations to start up again in May.
