"One thing classic car enthusiasts love is a leather interior, with the smell and feel of this natural material greatly enhancing the driving experience. "

This is sort of an informecial. But, with a starting para as nice as above, they get a mention here.

If you want a leather are wax for your car, read on

Leather bound ASUS note book computer wins design and innovation awards. The specifications include prominent mention of Leather cover for the product

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The Florence based company selling Italian leather goods opened a second store in Chicago on June 2, 2008.

The owners are searching for locations to open more stores in Chicago and other large US cities.

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People for Ethical Treatment of Animals arranged to created a sand image to highlight "harmful" effects of leather companies on the environment . This is in connection with World Environment Day on June 5.

Fire in a Tangra leather unit is put off without much damage to properly or loss of life.

Five fire engines managed to put off the fire in 2 hours.

India's growing affluent middle class go for elegant and class of leather furniture for their drawing rooms. Economic Times has an article giving tips to maintain leather upholstered domestic furniture.
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How one considers buying a leather sofa This blog post throws light on the thought process of a lady.

no compromise on quality is a value worth sticking to. It may take time to get the pay back, but values deliver in the long term.

Click on the link to read the success story of a leading Automotive Leather manufacturer's amazing experience.

Please let us know whether the enviroment is polluted by the waste generated in leather manufacturing. If so any new methods can be incorporated to prevent the environment pollution

Recently we were discussing with an expert serving Footwear Industries, he was mentioning about the short coming faced by Indian footwear industry - we thought of expressing / discussing the same with valuable people like you

The major crux of the short-comings are mentioned to be

1. Delay in deliveries, (in-spite of availability of production capacity) - as a result of rare availability of shoe components - resulting in longer purchase lead time - which would make task difficult for manual planning of component purchase requirement
* A case debated was, full shoe sole closing unit can produce 1000 pairs per day, but the production output per conveyor is said to be around 500, owing to irregular chain in supply
2. Less / non availability of expert Shoe finishing technology and technologists in comparison with world markets

We take pleasure in offering a solution to one of the above short comings.

Consider the following situation - the root cause of the irregularity in supply could be a flaw in manual requirement planning of shoe components. If this could be planned, considering the lead time for supply of every product from every different supplier, stock quantity, quantity in transit, allocated qty for pending orders, non allocated pending orders, production shall not be interrupted for non-availability components.

Hi..B.Tech Leather guys/Mech guys..there is a great future footwear graduates,if u r additionally qualified for pattern making/designing etc.,
Bye

“The cess payable by the shipper for the consignment of unprocessed leather was Rs.200 a kg totalling to Rs.3 million and additionally will be subjected to much paperwork,” Therefore, the exporter chose to declare the contents to consist of 600 bundles of ekel .

The Sunday Times reports that SriLanka's largest domestic Leather manufacturing company Ceylon Leather Products is restructuring its assets to reinvent itself.

The Valedictory Function of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Leather Education at AC College, Guindy was celebrated in Hotel Le Meridian, Chennai at 7 PM on 2 November.

After a long gap of over 6 month we plan toactivate the forum again. Thanks to S K Misra for taking the initiative. We welcome all fellow leather professionals to come forward and build this forum for the benefit of everyone.

I'm highly curious to know about the possible options after attaining the degree of B.Tech in Leather Technology. Will the visitors, please, throw some light? Thanks.

Dr Ramasamy contributed to cleaning up of leather industry, putting India on the global leather fashion scene and led CLRI admirably over the past 10 years. Now Dr Ramasamy is appointed as the country's new Science and Technology Secretary

Italy's Da Milano lands in Punjab thus reports The Hindu. The company entered India 31 years ago and has a total of 11 outlets planning to add more in the coming months.

Due to the restrictions imposed by EU trade officials, Chinese shoe exports to Europe have declined by 40% and profits on export by 10%. The shoe enterprises are feeling the pressure and are looking out for other markets.

It is sad to see such restrictive trade policies by a developed economic block like EU. They should encourage more free trade for the overall welfare of the world.