Community
20 May 2025
Open technical day and member procedure library
Morning tours, afternoon breakouts on water, waste, and quality, plus a curated library of bilingual SOPs.
PROJECTS
Innovation and strategic projects
Digitalisation, circular economy and traceability in the service of industry
Industry
5 May 2025
Harmonised technical audits ahead of brand certification
Single checklist across beamhouse-to-finish, agreed sampling plan, NC coding, and time-bound corrective actions.
Digital
20 Apr 2025
Lightweight batch ticketing for SME tanneries
Roadmap for lot IDs, QC events, role-based views, CSV audit exports, and optional hook to inline conductivity probes in phase two.
Training
8 Apr 2025
Dual-track training: young technicians on mill floors
Vocational and university-linked rotations with paired mentors, competency sign-off, and cluster certification.
International
25 Mar 2025
EU partnership: digital lot traceability for tannery-to-brand data
Workstream piloting persistent lot IDs, shop-floor quality events, and brand-readable exports.
Training
10 Mar 2025
University sandwich placements on leather process and materials
Six-month placements co-supervised by academics and plant technical leads, capped with a cluster seminar.
Innovation
25 Feb 2025
Tanning chemistry substitution: safety and chrome strike performance
Joint lab-and-mill campaign to trial alternative basifying and masking routes on pilot drums, with updated SDS packs.
Sustainability
10 Feb 2025
Closed-loop rinse-water pilot on three finishing lines
Partial recirculation trial with inline probes, weekly lab checks, and joint SOPs from maintenance and quality teams.