SECTOR SCANNER / STATE OF LEATHER 2022 / PART V COMMENTARY Leather Industry Must Work Out its Own Context for Net-Zero and Chart a Plan My article as published in texfash.com with a few very minor corrections that were missed when I rushed to send off my text Each stakeholder in the leather industry, […]
Strong statement from Textile Exchange on how they will define leather
In their November 1922 Newsletter, the Textile Exchange how they would in future define leather. This is the definition the leather industry has been using throughout the 20th century and on, but has failed to enforce. Italy recently passed a new law supporting this approach and Brazil did so as far back as the 1960s […]
Its All in the Name
The big news capturing headlines in the leather industry in the last week has been man made beef burgers. Pretty ugly things with added blood of unborn calves and all sorts of taste and colour modifiers. More importantly and much closer to market is the 3D printing of a fibrous collagen material that has come […]