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World Leather Day 2023
The theme this year is the long lasting beauty of leather and promoting the understanding that choosing it in products such as footwear, furniture or apparel, means investing items that will be long-lasting, wear beautifully and can be repaired through their lifetime.
New TFL Colour Trends Catalogue Autumn-Winter 2024/25
TFL has released its new TFL Colour Trends Catalogue for the season Autumn Winter 2024/25. In the catalogue, TFL presents the colour trends for leather garment, footwear, accessories and additionally for the upholstery industry.
Brazil’s February hide and skin exports decline
Brazil’s February exports of hides and skins totaled US$75.4 million in value. This is down by more than 23.9% from the previous month, and 31.3% lower than the same month last year.
Connect Biopharma CBP-201 Atopic Dermatitis Global Phase 2b Data Showed Rapid and Sustained Improvement Across all Body Regions
SAN DIEGO & TAICANG, China & SUZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Connect Biopharma Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: CNTB) (Connect Biopharma or the Company), a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing T cell-driven therapies to treat inflammatory diseases, announced that post hoc data analysis from the Phase 2b CBP-201 global trial in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) showed that CBP-201 led to rapid and sustained improvement in AD signs and symptoms across all four body regions, with both 2-week and 4-week dosing regimens, compared to placebo, as early as Week 2 and continuing through the 16-week study. This is the first time CBP-201 AD improvements have been broken down by body regions and symptom subtypes. The data were presented as an ePoster and online oral presentation today at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting, taking place today through March 21st in New Orleans.
China 2022 leather exports up by almost 20%
China’s leather exports were up by nearly 20 percent in 2022 while imports were down, according to Chen Zhanguang, chairman of the China Leather Industry association. Chen presented the statistics at a press conference during the Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF) in Dubai.
Brazil suspends beef exports to China over BSE
Brazil has stopped exporting beef to China after it discovered atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in two domestic meat plants.
Colombia ended 2022 with lower cattle slaughter
Colombia’s 2022 cattle slaughter was 3.1 million head, a drop of 5.9% compared to 2021, according to data from National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE).
Pakistan Leather show report
We are delighted to share the outcome of the8th Pakistan Mega Leather Show in consecutive which was held in Lahore International Expo Centre, Lahore (Pakistan) from 1st – 3rd February’2023 jointly organized by PTA & PFMA representing as Finished Leather (Pakistan Tanners Association – PTA), Leather Footwear (Pakistan Footwear Manufacturers Association – PFMA)alongwithall other stakeholders of Leather Sector of Pakistan such as Leather Garments (Pakistan Leather Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association – PLGMEA) and Leather Gloves (Pakistan Leather Gloves Manufacturers & Exporters Association – PGMEA)for the exposition of finest quality of Finished Leather of all sorts i.e. Goat/Sheep Skins, Cow/Buff Hides, Leather Footwear, Leather Garments, Leather Gloves and other Leather Products/made-ups with allied Industries of Tanning Chemicals, Tanning & Footwear machineries under one roof.
In the courts of California 100223
A decades-old law in a single US state could be taking on global signifi cance for the leather
industry. The legislation concerns exposure to harmful chemicals, and recent lawsuits have
taken aim at leather goods and the chromium VI they might contain. Vera Dordick reports.
Return to the office: How to fit back into leather shoes 100223
If you’ve been spending a lot of time at home in ugg boots, not doing so much exercise and
stacking on the coronakilos over the past few years or so, you may have noticed something
strange going on with your feet. They may not fit back into leather shoes, according to
Caroline Robinson, associate professor podiatry, Charles Sturt University.