Keeping Goldfish to save the planet?
When the EU social partners COTANCE and the European trade union, IndustriALL meeting took place in Glasgow last December to discuss the future of the European Leather industry Federico Brugnoli,...
View ArticleChris Wade
I heard this morning that Chris Wade died on the 16th June. He had a long and distinguished career do will be known by many in the trade. I met him first in El Salvador when he visited us while...
View ArticleBrexit “democracy needs experts”
Given that our Corium Club alumni are all scientists to a greater or lesser degree many who read this will also be reading this week’s editorial in the New Scientist. If not it is worth buying the...
View ArticleThe National Leather Collection has Moved Downtown
The National Leather Collection (which used to be called the Museum of Leathercraft), now safely housed on two upper floors of the Grosvenor Shopping Centre in the middle of Northampton, is leading the...
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Amanda Michel 1960-2017
Amanda Michel We tend to ask leather technicians whether they work in the wet end or in finishing and do not think of other roles. But as Christine Powley Williams made clear when she spoke movingly...
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Making the most of the Hong Kong Leather Show
University of Northampton Students at the APLF Leather Show in Hong Kong In recent years we have become used to meeting students on the University stand at the APLF leather show in Hong Kong. While the...
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Waste is a design error
Two 40 foot containers are put together to form one module of the new plant I first met Dietrich Tegtmeyer of Lanxess right at the beginning of this century – when Lanxess was still part of Bayer. I...
View ArticleSLTC 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...
View ArticleGetting you story right
Today I was delighted to be observing the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers being awarded a Fellowship of the University of Northampton at their July Degree ceremonies, to the obvious...
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Dr Robert Sykes OBE. Defining the Leather Industry of the 20th century
Dr Sykes relaxing during a long 1978 trip to Latin America for an ICT Meeting and tannery visits. L to R: the late Nigel Palmer from Pittards, Dr Sykes, Paul Ronan from Ireland and the late Jim...
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