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Kering extends metal-free tanning process to crocodile skins

16/09/2016

Luxury fashion house Kering is to expand the use of its metal-free tanning process from leather accessories to the crocodile skins used in its watchstraps. Kering’s crocodile leather is produced at the France Croco tannery in Normandy, which the fashion house acquired in 2013. It produces leather for watch straps, leathergoods, ready-to-wear and...

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