At its recent council session in Brussels, members of the European leather association COTANCE concluded that the outlook for the European leather industry in 2007 was looking more positive. 

Representatives of the leather industry from Hungary (BCE), Spain (CEC-FECUR), France (FFTM), Finland (FLIA), the Netherlands (FNL), Sweden (SG), United Kingdom (UKLF), Italy (UNIC), Belgium (UNITAN), Germany (VDL) and Switzerland (VSG), under the chairmanship of Jean-Claude Ricomard (Tanneries Roux, France), reviewed the state of the leather sector concluding that 2006 had been more positive for tanners compared with 2005. They agreed that the recession that has negatively affected leather markets in recent times appears to be over and that European tanners enjoyed a 5% increase in business in 2006, led by bovine leather and followed by the sheep and goat leather sector.

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