Assomac sets up new working group as revenues fall
The representative body of Italy’s leather and footwear machinery manufacturers, Assomac, has estimated revenues of €512 million for 2025. This would be a fall of 11% year on year.
It said at its annual general meeting that tanning machinery was down by nearly 25% year on year. The decline for leathergoods machinery was lower at 9.8%, while revenues for footwear machinery were down by 4%.
In response, Assomac has said it will set up a new working group, with representatives of the tanning, leathergoods and footwear sectors as members. It said the working group would be “a stable forum for dialogue” and would allow companies across the leather and leather products value chain to develop shared strategies. They will also be able to speak with one voice to national and European institutions.
Assomac president, Mauro Bergozza, said: “The proposal for a permanent supply chain working group stems from the desire to strengthen dialogue between technology, materials and finished products and to represent more effectively the needs of Italian manufacturing supply chains. There is no Made in Italy without a supply chain, no supply chain without manufacturing and no manufacturing without technology.”
