Leather chemicals company celebrates 50th anniversary
Leather chemicals developer Codyeco is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2026.
The company, which launched in Santa Croce sull’Arno in Tuscany in 1976, produces a full range of leather chemicals, including wet-end, finishing and beamhouse products. It became part of Smit & Zoon in 2017.
The company will release a series of videos to celebrate the anniversary. In the first of these, one of its senior people, Patrizia Barsotti, says that at the time of the company’s launch, its founder, Donato Berini, was determined to provide the tanning industry with something different.
“At that time,” Ms Barsotti says, “leather chemicals companies limited themselves to selling their products. Donato Berini realised that this was not enough. He realised that tanners needed someone at their side, day by day, someone who would help them face challenges and make good decisions.”
Image: Codyeco.
