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Associations news from our blog
Lineapelle's strategic role
Fulvia Bacchi, director of UNIC and managing director of Lineapelle, stresses the importance of physical fairs, still too little recognised by the government, and of the struggle to defend leather from undeserved and unfair attacks.
2021, another disappointing year
With Fabrizio Nuti, president of UNIC and owner of the Tuscan tanning group Nuti Ivo, we analyse the not very reassuring data of this year's beginning, trying to understand how the market is moving.
Leonardo Volpi at the lead of the vegetable-tanned Consortium
The appointment, for the two-year period 2021-2022, was unanimously formalised by the Board of Directors of the Consortium on last 23 February. Goals of the new president, cooperation, promotion and internationalisation
AEC: a cry for help by the sector
The Spanish industry of footwear components is not included in the anti-Covid decree relief measures meant to aid businesses: AEC, the association of reference, immediately protests this omission, demanding it be remedied with a letter to the Government
Leonardo Volpi at the lead of the vegetable-tanned Consortium
The appointment, for the two-year period 2021-2022, was unanimously formalised by the Board of Directors of the Consortium on last 23 February. Goals of the new president, cooperation, promotion and internationalisation
Changing of the guard at APLF
Director of APLF and Executive Vice President of Informa Markets (Asia) Michael Duck will be taking on new, expanded responsibilities for the company as Executive Vice President- Commercial Development, a global position
Keywords: sustainability and digital transformation
Silvana Dilly, the newly elected Superintendent of Assintecal, tells us about the priorities that the association intends to address to accompany the associated companies, soon and well, outside of this serious global crisis, always with an eye on the Inspiramais Show, which represents the institution’s flagship and the reference event in Latin America.
“Maintaining and promoting leadership of the Italian tanning industry”
Fabrizio Nuti, owner of the Tuscan tanning group Nuti Ivo, recently president of UNIC - Italian Tanneries considers leather sustainability and promotion his keywords.
Fabrizio Nuti is the new UNIC president
A Tuscan at the top of the association of Italian tanners
FFANY and FDRA will be as one
This has been talked about for years and now it seems a done deal: next October FFANY will go under the aegis of FDRA. Only the final approval of FDRA's Management Board is missing.
ASSOMAC plants 500 plants in Madagascar
ASSOMAC, the italian association of technology-makers, is financing an agro-forestry project through the planting of 500 plants in the African island.
The leather sustainability campaign kicked off
UNIC illustrates the concept of the message that will soon be disclosed through social media and not only. In the meantime, the sector ends 2019 with a decrease in production of 7.8%
Ethiopia, open for business
Huge investments in the brand new industrial parks dedicated to leather await international investments that bet on the growth of a country which is set to become the most important manufacturing hub by 2025
UNIC obtains the ISO 9001:2015 Certification
To offer high-level services to its members with rigor and authority, UNIC continues its path of improving its quality level.
