POSTED ON OCTOBER 11, 2018 Dr Robert Sykes OBE. Defining the Leather Industry of the 20th century In 1994 Robert Sykes, who sadly died on the 5th October aged 89, called me and asked if I would be willing to talk to the International Council of Tanners about “Branding Leather” at their annual meeting in […]
SLTC focus on Northampton has proven win:win
POSTED ON APRIL 23, 2018 SLTC on a successful track The Society of Leather (SLTC) held its 121st Annual Conference at the University of Northampton on Saturday last, the 21st April. I think I have been back to attend about one third of all them, so I have seem the gradual decline and growth in phases over […]
The start of Leather Naturally triggered by bad science in Hong Kong
POSTED ON OCTOBER 5, 2008 The danger of bad science in good hands It was only a week ago that we were listening to Dr Heinz-Peter Germann give a very clear and straight forward Procter Memorial Lecture about the current technical status of tanning from an environmental stance at the SLTC conference in the UK. […]