The latest World Leather is available now, bringing you the views of the chief executive of GSC, Adriano Serafini, on recent developments in leather chemicals and the overall situation in the global leather industry. We follow this with a round-up from this year’s FILK Freiberg Leatherdays event and pick out a number of presentations from the conference that merit in-depth coverage. The articles arising from this cover traditional pastoralist systems, the rise of bio-based retanning and fatliquoring materials, and sustainable syntan options. There are also features in the Technology section on innovation in drying and on automation in hide inspection. Leather and the Circular Economy this time covers the ongoing horror of hunger, emphasising the need to maintain meat supply chains, the contribution leather has made to 50 years of the VW Golf, a trend among farmers to set up micro-tanneries, the start-up in Mexico that celebrates leather’s longevity, and the start-up in France that is applying its tec
