Statistics from Brazil show that employment in the leather manufacturing industry there has increased in the course of 2025 so far.

Official figures for the period to the end of August showed that tanners in Brazil were employing a total of 32,135 people. This is 3.7% up on the figure at the end of 2024.

Industry body CICB said the state of Rio Grande do Sul continues to have the biggest number of leather manufacturing jobs, with 8,481, up by 6.4% compared to the start of the year.

The figure for the state of São Paulo was the second-biggest for tanning industry jobs, with 6,609, an increase of 7.3% since January.

Together, these two states host 47% of all of Brazil’s tannery workers.

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