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EU Green Leather Products Alliance Supported By The International Tanning Association

2014/5/14 12:28:00 42

the representative of the European leather industry, the European Union's international tanning Association (CONTANCE), has been fully supported by the European leather industry for its participation in the new working group to help determine the status of leather's "green products" status. 
Last year, CONTANCE successfully applied for leather to become one of the EU's "green products" pilot projects in P. In June 2014, these projects will begin to operate under the guidance of the European Commission. But before the start, the European Commission asked the representatives of the leather, meat, dairy, feed and pet food industries to set up a new working group to try to reach agreement on the system boundaries of the stakeholders in the value chain of live cattle, and clearly how to share the responsibility of environmental protection. 
In May 12th P, CONTANCE noted that due to incomplete response, members of the technology Secretariat established by the organization will help run the pilot project. "All members of the organization responded positively." CONTANCE said in a statement, "including Italy, the most important leather producing country in Europe, Italy manufacturing accounted for more than 50% of leather manufacturing in the EU." The TDC members of the Technical Secretariat, including the British group and the Scotland leather group, have expressed their support. At the same time, they responded to the support of the organizations and enterprises, including leather company, the international leather technology and Chemicals Association and the International Leather Manufacturers Association (ICT). 
"We think that the leather industry's participation in the activities of the working group is very important," said Paul Pearson, Secretary General of P ICT. The environmental footprint of leather is a fundamental problem, and the leather industry must not participate in it. " 
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 CONTANCE (European Union National Leather Association Union) is headquartered in Brussels, representing the whole leather industry in Europe. At a recent meeting, the group stressed that the EU "is actually the only market that has no export restrictions on raw skins", which has led European governments to fail to realize that the raw leather industry is at risk. After the annual meeting, CONTANCE published a report that "high quality industries in luxury, fashion and automotive industries usually need special skins. Because of the difficulty of procurement and fierce competition, the price level of raw leather is in an unstable state. "Under such circumstances, European tanning manufacturers have no choice but to raise prices. Customers also need to understand that this is the only way to keep high quality leather. Because only in Europe with the most demanding environment, health and safety requirements in Europe, can they find the ideal leather. The report also pointed out that SMEs in Europe have experienced such experience in the past few years: the price of raw materials rose at a two digit rate, while leather prices rose far below this level.