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Putting facts front and centre, this series of industry expert essays sets out to shine the light of truth on how leather is really made. Dispelling the incorrect and obsolete agenda driven misinformation published about the leather industry today.

Corporate social responsibility in the leather industry

About this essay: This essay highlights a number of prominent examples of corporate social responsibility in action in the global tanning industry. The... Free Content

Alternative materials to leather: environmental impacts and cost
Financial cost is only one measure of cost. Plastic alternatives to leather are ...
The properties and value of leather
This essay tackles the myth that synthetic materials are as good as leather....
The carbon footprint of leather
We cover in the greatest possible depth the arguments over the best and fairest ...
Leather and the circular (or Blue) economy
The leather industry can point to its long-standing history of making use of...
Management of water-use in tanneries
This article outlines how the 'reduce, reuse, recycle' philosophy is being...

01 July 2015

Chrome and specific health issues

Only trivalent chromium compounds are used in leather manufacture and there are no reasonable issues with this chemical in leather...

01 May 2015

Chrome in leather manufacture

The most common method used throughout the world for tanning leather is known as chrome tannage. Approximately 85% of all leathers are manufactured using this process...

01 March 2015

The effects of chemicals on workers and consumers

About this essay Dr Alois G PALntener, based in Switzerland, is considered an inventor and innovator in the chemistry of leather production, with a host of patents to his name.

01 January 2015

Standards and use limitations for chemicals in leather production

Every manufacturing industry uses chemicals and these products are part of everyday life. Accordingly, the process of leather manufacture also uses chemicals to meet...

01 November 2014

Hide and skin production around the world

The volume of hides and skins coming as a by-product from the global meat industry is enormous. Figures suggest the meat industry generates 240 million cattle hides a year...

01 September 2014

The value of livestock and animal protein in the fight against poverty and malnutrition

Specialist UN agency the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said 900 million people in extreme poverty live in rural areas and most of them rely on livestock...

01 July 2014

Nothing to Hide: Issues of deforestation

Multi-stakeholders initiatives, private monitoring systems, research on low carbon livestock production, mitigation projects, have together shown that it is possible to produce meat (and consequently...

01 May 2014

Animal welfare and animals as valuable providers of consumer products

This essay explains the work animal welfare expert Dr Temple Grandin has done to help abattoirs in many parts of the world improve the way they work...

01 March 2014

Hides and skins: by-products of meat production

The global market for beef, and hence hides for leather production, is finely balanced. The supply is clearly based on the demand for beef, rather than the needs of the leather sector...

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