Covington receives IULTCS merit award

The executive committee of the IULTCS awarded the 2009 winner of the prestigious IULTCS Merit Award for Excellence in the Leather Industry to Professor Tony Covington, Emeritus Professor of Leather Science at the British School of Leather Technology (BSLT) of the University of Northampton, UK, at the IULTCS congress in Beijing, October 11-14. Covington receives the award from Elton Hurlow (right), president of IULTCS and professor Bi Shi, incoming president of IULTCS and head of the State Key Laboratory at Sichuan University, China