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Footwear still takes the biggest share of Italian leather

26/06/2015
Tanners in Italy produced 126.7 million square-metres of leather and 32,500 tonnes of sole leather in 2014. The combined value of all this material was €5.3 billion, of which just over €4 billion came from buyers outside the country. These figures represent an increase in value of 1.5% and a decrease in volume of 1.7% compared to 2013.

Of the total, 79% of Italian leather was made from bovine raw material, 20% from sheep or goats and 1% from the hides and skins of other animals.

By volume, footwear’s share of the material was 43.2% (a decline of 2.3%). Leathergoods manufacturers took a 25% share of the material, an increase of 1.4%, while companies in the furniture sector reduced their consumption to 15.5% of the total, down by 8% compared to its share in 2013. With regard to the automotive industry, 9.5% of all of Italy’s leather went into automotive interiors in 2014 and this market segment increased its share by 5.6%. Garments and gloves account for the rest.

Italian tanners imported 817,000 tonnes of raw material in 2014, 63% as wet blue, 33% as raw and 4% as crust.

The country’s tanning industry association, Unic, released these statistics at its annual general assembly in Milan on June 25.


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