Having halted production a week earlier, Midwest Tanning Co. closed the doors of its South Milwaukee tannery on June 29, ending sixty year’s production at the Davis Avenue plant.

As well as producing leather for military and industrial gloves, Midwest Tanning manufactured fashion and utility glove leathers. Ironically, the company’s operations will be consolidated with those of a business whose assets it purchased in 1996, Paul Flagg Leather Co., of Sheboygan. Specialising in the production of leather for the footwear, glove and specialty markets, the latter company opened a new production operation in Mexico last year.

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