SGS Joins The Sustainable Leather Foundation as a Contributing Partner!
The Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) is delighted to welcome SGS as a Contributing Partner! Established over 140 years ago, SGS are a world leading testing, inspection and certification company with 93,000 employees operating a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more connected world. A company that holds […]
Austan and Picard join The Sustainable Leather Foundation as our first integrated tannery and product manufacturer
We are delighted to welcome Austan and Picard as our first group partner comprising both a tannery and a product manufacturer! Based in Bangladesh, Austan Limited is an environmentally friendly, manufacturer of finished leather located in Dhaka Export Processing Zone. Austan manufactures a wide range of high quality finished leather products to Picard and aims to […]
Material Exchange Sustainability Playbook
Last week, Material Exchange hosted a launch event webinar to talk about their online sourcing platform and how material sourcing is evolving toward become a more sustainable, efficient process. SLF are delighted to be a spotlight partner under the better leather category which contains a dozen key search categories. The Better Leather sustainability search term […]
Leder Chimica joins the Sustainable Leather Foundation as a Contributing Partner
We are delighted to welcome Leder Chimica as a Contributing Partner! An Italian family owned company established in 1986 with the main focus of providing high quality products for the Leather business. Leder Chimica study and manufacture chemicals for leather production across a range of industries including; clothing, footwear, automobile upholstery, furniture and fashion accessories. […]
Rolfes Leather joins The Sustainable Leather Foundation as a Contributing Partner
We are delighted to welcome Rolfes Leather as a Contributing Partner! Rolfes Group was established in 1938 as a family business manufacturing lead chrome pigments. Over the years the business has grown and now manufactures and distributes a wide range of market-leading, high-quality chemical and organic products to various industries through their Agricultural, Food, Industrial […]
SIlvateam joins The Sustainable Leather Foundation as a Contributing Partner
We are delighted to welcome Silvateam as a Contributing Partner! Silvateam, established in 1854, is passionate about plant-based extracts for leather tanning. The company are world leading when it comes to natural, sustainable products that support a wide range of other applications in addition to leather, such as animal health, food and wine and other […]
Workshop focused on traceability through blockchain
During a recent workshop hosted by Circulor, our Managing Director, Deborah Taylor, was a guest speaker talking about the challenges of traceability in the leather value chain. The discussion and subsequent workshop sessions were engaging, productive and valuable, particularly considering the automotive perspective. This workshop was the culmination of a blockchain traceability project where Circulor, […]
Presentation to the General Meeting of the Leather & Hide Council of America
On Friday the 15th of October our Managing Director, Deborah Taylor, gave a presentation to assembled delegates at the Leather and Hide Council of America’s Annual General Meeting which was held in Chicago. The meeting was hosted in a hybrid format with some delegates attending in person and others joining online. Despite the travel restrictions […]
Successful Audit for Crest Leather Italia!
On 27-28 September, SLF conducted it’s first audit of the facilities at Crest Leather Italia. Crest already hold LWG Gold rated certification which meant that the company did not need to reaudit any of those elements already certified. Instead, we were able to carry out an audit to complete missing areas of conformance around Environmental […]
SLF is excited to share it’s official endorsement from the WWF!
The Sustainable Leather Foundation is proud to have been endorsed by the World Wide Fund and we are excited to work closely with WWF to continue making progress towards a sustainable future. Our Managing Director, Deborah Taylor, explains “When really taking stock of the key concerns that affect the leather industry, it is vital that […]