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.
About this essay: This essay highlights a number of prominent examples of corporate social responsibility in action in the global tanning industry. The...
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...
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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.
Every manufacturing industry uses chemicals and these products are part of everyday life. Accordingly, the process of leather manufacture also uses chemicals to meet...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...