Arzignano model tannery will bring industry-wide benefits, Assomac says
The president of Assomac, Italy’s national association for tanning technology developers, Mauro Bergozza, has revealed that member companies are preparing to join forces to set up a new model tannery in Arzignano.
Working with local tanners and suppliers of leather chemicals, Assomac members will have the opportunity to join up the entire production chain for making leather, “from one machine to the next”.
He said that, in this way, the technology providers will be able to gather “all possible data” on leather production. “We will then be able to hand that data over for the tanners to carry out their own analysis of the process,” Mr Bergozza said. “This will help them to be as cost-efficient as possible and to keep making improvements in aspects such as energy use, but while still carefully controlling product quality.”
Mr Bergozza said “a technological leap forward” had happened in tanning machinery since the covid-19 pandemic. He argued that, when it became difficult and, at times, impossible for people to communicate face-to-face with one another, it became important for them to be able to share information through technology.
As a result of this, there is now a high level of technology in the machines that Assomac members are developing.
Image shows Mauro Bergozza.
