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Kenyan tannery wishes to ‘improve image of the leather industry’

18/08/2014

A tannery in the Athi River area of Kenya has planted 15,000 trees to help counter soil erosion and hopes to “improve the image of the leather industry in East Africa”. Athi River Tanneries was set up by two brothers in 2010, after taking over the site of a former tannery built in the 1960s. It produces a 500,000 square feet of wet blue hides...

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