International Leather Maker

If you look at the categories used for luxury goods – apparel and footwear, leather goods and accessories, watches and jewellery, cosmetics, luxury cars, arts, home and furniture, technology, alcohol and food, and travel and hotels – you will see there is no leather in cosmetics, alcohol or food. In all the other sectors leather […]

I like cars. You may not think it from the fact that, in our family, we have a 19-year-old petrol VW we brought back from the Netherlands near the start of the century, and a six-year-old diesel Volvo that needs another few years of ownership before the leather upholstery matures to its full beauty. Environmental […]

Around the world, we have many famous tanning centres, famous at least within the tanning industry. Alcanena, Himeji, Ranipet, Leon, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Arzignano, Sialkot and Igualada offer just a taste. Hoover’s 1937 Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, which talks mostly about New England in the U.S. through the late 19th and early […]

I’m in a “sea view” hotel room adjacent to Cleethorpes on the East Coast of England where we overlook the Humber Estuary. From here, we can see just a few of over 300 wind turbines in the offshore Hornsea fields, which will more than double by 2030. I’m in the fishing port of Grimsby because […]

We need to return to the discussion about methane. The holes that appeared in two pipelines in the Baltic recently tell us that undersea cables and pipelines for energy and communications are now fair game in warfare. They also remind us that natural gas is all about enormous quantities of methane. The Baltic pipelines were […]

So, it was with a sense of relief that the 100th Lineapelle was able to put masks and passes behind it and get down to the business of extracting meaning from the many current challenges. That it was badly needed was apparent from the large number of parallel events held alongside such as the IULTCS EuroCongress […]

On Monday, September 19 along with the rest of the UK, and many others internationally, I spent the entire day watching the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022). It was a poignant moment in a world being relentlessly impacted by turbulent events. Soon after the pandemic started in early 2020, there was […]

Last Thursday morning (September 8), I was learning about attacks being made by an animal rights group on a nearby milk distributor (part of a national campaign). The activists believe that we should stop eating meat and cheese and drinking milk, instead using all grazing land for rewilding. I was reminded that, as a child […]

The world of work has been changed by the pandemic. Attitudes to working from home (WFH) may vary across the world, by company, culture and individual circumstances, but the concept that employees in a huge variety of areas can be effective working outside the office has parked itself firmly in modern business life. It is […]

Last week, I attended a hustings. This is where competing politicians battle, verbally, for our vote. In the UK, politics have got into a curious state as this vote is directly for a new Prime Minister. Normally, we support only parties and local candidates and the majority party leader is nearly always the one the […]