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Biodegradable shoes
What is meant by biodegradable shoe? Let me say it in a simple way: you put it in the soil, you wait a little while and in the end you can’t find it anymore because it has turned into something else.
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Industry news from our blog
The gift from Tacchificio Villa Cortese
It’s always nice to receive good wishes towards the end of the year, during the festive season. It’s even nicer if they are full of meaning and concrete action, like those received from the Lombardy-based heel factory.
Fimec, in presence at May 2021
The Brazilian show announces its new show dates from 4 to 6 May to the footwear and tanning industries, for an edition that signals the desire to return to do business in-person
Inescop: agricultural by-products as resources for shoes
The Centre for Technology and Innovation applied to the footwear of Alicante develops two projects that are based on the recycling of agricultural materials for the production of footwear
Industrie Chimiche Forestali focusses primarily on circular economy
The development of new products for the footwear sector, made of recycled polymers by more than 50%, highlights the strategic value that ICF assigns to environmental and social sustainability to grow and compete on international markets.
Fabrizio Nuti is the new UNIC president
A Tuscan at the top of the association of Italian tanners
Couromoda changes date
It will be held from 1 to 3 March 2021 in São Paulo
Simac Tanning Tech postponed to the second half of 2021
The technology fair has been postponed in order not to affect the international turnout
Kind Leather is the most sustainable leather on the market
This is confirmed by an LCA study, commissioned by JBS in partnership with Asiatan
Shoetech 2020 chooses a digital format
The Indian event organised by IFCOMA and dedicated to the sector of components and materials for the footwear-manufacturing industry will be held from 23 to 28 November on a virtual platform
The Safety Footwear Revolution Week will be held from 23rd to 26th of November 2020
A fully digital and virtual conference that aims to be a milestone on the footwear Sector.
E.C.O. Hide, recycled leather for sustainable products
Italian Converter’s on a roll recycled leather with eco-friendly finishes.
Ogreen, the first eco-sustainable rubber
An international group for the production of articles in rubber, plastic, and silicon, with Ogreen, Oldrati replies to a market that is increasingly attentive to sustainability
A New Point Of View by Lineapelle won the bet
The special event designed to overcome the difficulties of this 2020 allowed the 326 exhibitors present (tanneries, manufacturers of accessories, components, fabrics and synthetic materials, chemicals and technological services) to meet a lively audience of buyers.
Cuoio di Toscana launches its Sustainability Declaration
The green decalogue of the Consortium wants to commit the entire Italian leather supply chain towards natural regenerative solutions and towards circularity for a zero waste model. And it wants to be a guarantor, both towards international brands that use its productions, and towards the final consumer.
