The leather industry has taken a beating from conscientious consumers for decades, and for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the chemicals used in leather processing are toxic to humans and the ...

Crafting leather from animal hides is an age-old industry, but its production today continues to mostly follow a linear model often mired in a range of environmental problems, including pollution, the ...

ON A RECENT VACATION in Morocco, my husband and I watched one of the oldest chemical processes in action: the conversion of animal hides into leather by a process that was already well-developed by ...

LIFE IS ABOUT TO CHANGE in Hazaribagh, the old tannery district of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. Within two years—if the scenario currently envisaged pans out—the district's 206 leather tanneries will ...

The growth of the automotive leather seat upholstery market is primarily driven by increasing consumer preference for premium ...