Different eyes but with the same expression. Eyes that look at us and invite us not to close ours. The protagonists in the ger 2012 calendar are all animals in dying species, who every day see their living space being gradually eroded by man, threatening their survival on our planet. We have chosen the eyes [...]

Enchants, entertains, moves. Danilo Rea hypnotizes Arzignano. The musician, Vicenza-born but Roman by adoption, was the protagonist Friday, June 3rd of an exciting concert, hosted in the shipping department of the tannery Priante. Music and industry, art and production: more than 400 spectators applauded to the performance of the jazzman breathing in the scent of [...]

In the afternoon of May the 11th 2011, two earthquakes measuring 5.2 and 4.4 on the Richter scale struck Lorca, a town in the region of Murcia, one of the main zones for the production of leather in Spain. So far, the death toll is ten dead and about 200 injured and it was reported [...]

Fiera Data Città Paese AYAKKABI 5 – 8 Izmir Turkey EFICA 9 – 11 Buonos Aires Argentina MOSSHOES 10 – 13 Moscow Russia CHINA FUR & LEATHER PRODUCTS FAIR 10 – 13 Beijing China EXPO RIVA SCHUH 14 – 17 Riva del Garda Italy COUROMODA 16 – 19 Sao Paulo Brasil ISTANBUL LEATHER FAIR 17 [...]

Bauce Tri.Ma presents Blue Extreme, new continuous sammying for drying leather. “Open the leather on the right side”, is the new slogan and result of Bauce Tri.Ma In via del Lavoro, in Trissino, in the province of Vicenza, a company that was founded in 1969 by Attilio and is now managed by Luca, Sabrina and Michela, [...]

During the crisis, which has also affected the world of leather, in 2010 the tannery machinery sector saw a strong recovery, more than +40% compared to 2009. Especially exports have grown, getting again the levels of 2008 (+49.17%), with a positive trend on all international markets. Good performance from the beginning of the year, with [...]

The Trissino company has opened a new factory in Rio Grande Do Sul: “Brazil is our largest market”. Clients in China, Turkey, Africa and halfway around the world, 15 million Euros turnover and 7-8 wet leather machines produced every month. In August 2011 Bauce celebrated its 1500th tannery machine sold, in April 2012 it inaugurated [...]

Naoum Ditsios took the plunge and invested the astronomical — for these times — amount of 11 million euros to build a cutting-edge environmentally friendly tannery in the northern Greek city of Kastoria. The risky initiative has already attracted the interest of businessmen from Italy, France and Germany, who will be visiting the facility to [...]

Clini in Milan: “the Italian tanning industry is a model for the rest” “The Italian tanning industry is a model for the rest”, declared the Ministry for the Environment, Corrado Clini, during the opening week of female fashion in Milan, to sign an agreement with Gucci addressed to giving more importance to the environment and [...]

Tanning is art, not just production, a few will fall by the way due to the crisis but product quality and research are the keystones to get through it. Produce in China? No way. The future, like the past, is in the Arzignano district: we need a “Tanning Museum” so that we don’t forget who [...]

Spain: in technology, a faded pictures “The tanning situation in Spain? A black and white photo”. Not much quality, turnover at minimum: the Iberian peninsula does not look good for the tanning sector. That’s the feeling that we got listening to Mr. Carlos Perez, the tannery machines agent in Spain and Germany and trusty reseller, [...]

Turkish leather exports has increased by 23% from US$431 million in 2010 to US$531 million in the first five months of 2011, according to the Turkish Leather & Leather Products Industry Assembly. Russia, Italy, Germany, China, France, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Ukraine and Britain were the top nine countries in Turkey’s leather exports.

Production and labour are cut down. Difficult times for the Chinese tanning where some companies have decided to reduce their production. Rising raw material prices and especially stringent new environmental constraints are the cause of the difficulties. According to the Shangdong Leather Association, which gathers the tanneries from the oriental coast province of China together, [...]