A recent president of the German Leather Technicians and Chemists Association (VGCT), Martin Heise, has died. He died on December 9 after a long period of illness.

Mr Heise spent his entire career in the leather industry and was a popular and well known figure across the sector. He had been the global product manager for wet-end leather chemicals at the Smit & Zoon group since the end of 2019, a role he took up after more than 20 years at Trumpler.

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