(Update from an item first posted in VegLeatherHubAugust 7, 2015) The wonderful film of Richard Hodgson and Sons from 1937 that brings back many memories. My father used to buy dressing hides from them for Muirheads in Glasgow having joined them as a finishing chemist in 1934, I imagine they were being produced for Muirheads […]
Times change
For those who watch this website and in particular the blog you may have noticed that below the waterline quite a lot has been happening. I have been steadily trying starting to update some parts of the website and to improve the ease of reading. A new timeline for gloves has been introduced and will […]
POSTED ON JUNE 23, 2016 Chris Wade I heard this morning that Chris Wade died on the 16th June. He had a long and distinguished career so will be known by many in the trade. I met him first in the 1970s in El Salvador when he visited us while working for K Shoes and […]
Africa then and now
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2014 Out of Africa I do not know how many times over about the last thirty years I have stood in the balcony of a room at the Addis Hilton to look of the town. The sounds and the smells are just the same but two big differences stand out. Nearly […]
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 […]
SLTC Conference, Corium Club and Kano
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Events, dear boy, events We have already spoken about how the SLTC conference on 28th April in Northampton looking interesting and the Textile conference (now postponed to October) but every year at Hong Kong the BLC along with the APLF have been running an afternoon seminar. The agenda this year […]