POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 Sunday in Shanghai It’s Sunday and I’m in Shanghai. It used to be that whenever you went to a leather show you would start meeting people you knew at the departure gate, or later when lounges became common in the airline lounge. But times have changed. Our industry has restructured […]
Degree Ceremony and the new MSc
POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2013 Degrees Apart In our business the essential skill for a tanner lies in managing what happens inside the factory. It is not just making great leather but being able to make the great same leather day in and day out. The cost of errors – unhappy customers with empty factories, […]
Alumni are important and Innovation in the leather industry
POSTED ON JULY 8, 2013 Two items below The Value of Alumni When I was working on helping the Pakistan Government update their strategy for the leather industry a few years ago I had the opportunity to visit large numbers of tanneries and shoe factories. What was astonishing was that in factory after factory I […]
Innovation as it used to be
I am sitting at my desk holding a thick book. It is the outcome of a quite a few years of part time work getting a PhD in management at the University of Bath. It is not a leather industry PhD but it is about the leather industry in that it looks at the evolution […]
Life in the Leather Industry need not be the pits
SLTC 116th Annual Conference The long age of the SLTC Annual Conference is a measure of the introduction of chromium technology to the leather industry, as that was the moment when tannery owners started to hire chemists to manage their production. Testing pH and astringency by tasting it was no longer adequate as short process […]
Professor Nishimura on Japan, Student Prizegiving
POSTED ON MAY 8, 2013 Particularly Engaging Students For those readers who are keen listeners to BBC Radio then Robin Day’s World of Business is a must listen. I download them as podcasts and listen in the car while I drive up to the University from home. The programme this week was “Job Search: Millions of […]
The hide will not adapt itself to the leather market
Leather is a synonym for paradox I seem to remember the start of the year beig very much defined by three months of travel to sports and outdoor trade fairs in the US and Europe, coming up for air with APLF in Hong Kong. The sports shows have reduced in number and the way tanners […]
Freiberg Leather Days Talk
From Fashion Net Asia: At the recent Freiberg – Leather Days, held in Germany on April 25th and 26th, one of the invited speakers was Mike Redwood, Visiting Professor of Leather at the University of Northampton in the UK and one of the founders of the Leather Naturally! Campaign. Professor Redwood’s presentation gives a brief […]
The University of Northampton press release about APLF
Asia Pacific Leather Fair – Hong Kong The University of Northampton and The Institute for Creative Leather Technologies once again had a strong presence at the annual Asia Pacific Leather Fair in Hong Kong. The fair offers the opportunity for the University to showcase the exciting work that is being done in Leather Technology. The […]
Brazilian Leather Announces Great New Branding
Press release below from Brazilian Leather Industry on great new branding. Brazilian leather’s high concept among the largest and most demanding world markets has won a new attribute: The Brazilian Leather Project new visual identity campaign. Developed through a partnership between theCentre for the Brazilian Tanning Industry (CICB)and Apex-Brasil(Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), the […]
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