POSTED ON JULY 20, 2012 three items below from June and July 2012 Getting it right by degrees Yesterday the leather degrees were awarded by the University of Northampton. Despite all the changes in Higher Education in the UK as government tries to work out how to manage costs and the future of skills and […]
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 […]
Warren Weinstein: a dynamo for good
In the small environment of the global leather industry you get the chance to meet some very fine people. For me one of the best I have worked with in recent years is Warren Weinstein the country director for Pakistan for the American consultancy JE Austin. I was privileged to work with Warren to help […]
COTANCE on leather labelling issues, and an item on famous leather chemists
POSTED ON JUNE 24, 2011 Two items below COTANCE press release June 2011 COTANCE complains against the adoption by the EU of a penalising descriptor for Leather on Textile clothing labels The representatives of the European Leather Industry meeting in Council in Rome regret the approval of the EU Regulation on Textile Names and Labelling […]
Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past”
Note: first published on University of Northampton blog, 19th August 2010 I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the edition that Virgin had […]
Finding Alumni
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Finding Alumni in Ethiopia and at APLF, Hong Kong Addis Ababa has probably the highest density of alumni of any City in the world. It has competition mainly from Karachi. So a visit to the All African leather fair in Addis is always going to be highlighted by many greetings […]
Prof Geoff Attenburrow and Pat Potter
Two stalwarts retire from the BSLT POSTED ON JANUARY 12, 2010 All in a decade We seem to be rushing into the new decade at breakneck speed for the BSLT the first decade of the 21st century was pretty momentous. We had a succession of Heads of the BSLT, a succession of Deans, a new […]
Don Roberto Palomo h – one of the great shoemakers, and a friend
There are always a small number of individuals who make a disproportionate impact on one’s life and career. I have been fortunate to have many good colleagues over the years that have taken me under their wing and given me counsel which has always been much valued. From Philip Byrne at Barrow Hepburn, through Loris […]
The Greenpeace report on the Amazon and Northampton celebrates 100 years of Leather teaching
POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2009 The Amazon is important for the leather industry One highlight of the summer has been the publication of the Greenpeace report “Slaughtering the Amazon” and the way the leather industry has reacted to. We had always thought that cutting down the rain forest was about illegal logging but it turns […]
Emeritus Professor Tony Covington, his life and technology
POSTED ON JULY 13, 2009 Tony Emeritus: a. retired, but retaining honorary office; n. (pl. -ti) such as professor, etc. It is a rather special moment when Leather Science (or Technology) provides the first ever Emeritus Professor at a University. Yet that is what Professor Tony Covington has achieved at Northampton and on the 9th […]