Every manufacturing industry uses chemicals and these products are part of everyday life. Leather manufacture also uses chemicals to meet the wide range of requirements of today’s consumer.
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06 August 2021
The meat industry and cattle hides
There has always been a delicate balance between the meat industry and the leather sector. Since we published the original version of essay five in the Nothing To Hide series, the challenges facing the meat...
13 July 2021
Animals and the fight against poverty
The main sources of the information in this essay are The World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International...
18 May 2021
Action to keep the leather value chain deforestation-free
Brazil is one of the most important sources in the world of food and productivity improvements have allowed it to go from requiring food aid in the 1970s to producing enough food for 1.4 billion people every...
26 March 2021
The importance of animal welfare to the leather industry
Nothing to Hide Essay Two was first published in 2014. The updated information in this new version has come, principally, from a talk that Professor Temple Grandin of Colorado State University
28 January 2021
Hide and skin production around the world
Tanners are entirely dependent on a reliable supply of raw material, but this updated first essay in the Nothing to Hide series shows that, without the leather industry...
Leather industry hits back
Seven years after launching the Nothing To Hide essays explaining why people make and use leather and how the industry works, World Leather is now updating the series.