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South African Ostrich tannery opens for business

17/02/2003

In the growing Ostrich leather market, South Africa maintains its position comfortably as the world’s leading supplier of Ostrich leather and Ostrich meat products. Since the lifting of strict marketing and production laws that limited these activities to a single channel, a number of vibrant ostrich processing plants have sprung up. And whilst many of these plants are driven by the ostrich breeders/producers themselves, they utilise skills and expertise which have been developed over the years in South Africa. One such enterprise is Ostrimark S.A. which has opened it doors in Grahamstown near Port Elizabeth.

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