27 February 2025

France - French leather industry puts key points to President Macron

Image shows President Emmanuel Macron (left), with the president of Alliance France Cuir, Christophe Dehard.

France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, met senior representatives of the country’s leather industry on the opening day of the Paris International Agricultural Show, February 22. By Leatherbiz.


After the meeting, the president of Alliance France Cuir, Christophe Dehard, said he had taken the opportunity to tell President Macron about the challenges the leather sector faces, but also about its dynamism.


He pointed out to the president that the work of the leather industry in France, 145,000 tonnes of hides and skins, which he said was 20 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower.


He said that without cattle farming, there would be no leather industry, but that without the leather industry, there would be many tonnes of extra waste to deal with.

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