8 November 2024
The Santa Croce-based Italian tanners association L’Associazione Conciatori has hosted the second edition of Tanning Orienteering – an initiative to help school teachers learn more about tanning and leather so they can encourage students to enter the sector. By Leatherbiz.
The project, supported by national tanning association UNIC with the support of the Tanners’ Consortium of Ponte a Egola, highlights job opportunities and university courses related to leathergoods manufacture, in a bid to encourage new generations to enter the industry.
It builds on the Amici per la Pelle project, which introduces students to the sector through workshops and tannery tours. The students work with leather and present their projects at the Lineapelle leather fair in Milan.
The Tanners’ Association was founded in Santa Croce sull’Arno in 1976 and it counts 150 tanneries in Santa Croce sull’Arno, Castelfranco di Sotto and Fucecchio as members.
We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.
We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.
