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Biotech firm to develop new-generation bio-stimulants from leather scraps

19/03/2021

Vicenza-based biotech company ILSA has announced that it will acquire 120,000 of leather trimmings over the next three years and transform the material into bio-stimulants for agriculture. 

ILSA, one of the partners in the ‘Green Leather Industry for the Environment’ project, which ran from 2014-2017, has said the new products will be suitable for use in organic farming and will be “in perfect alignment with the principles of the circular economy”.

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