Tannery of the Year: leather industry awaits results of fifth competition
The 2016 winner of the Tannery of the Year competition will be announced during a gala dinner in Hong Kong on March 30, as the world’s leading tanneries and suppliers gather for the Asia Pacific Leather Fair.
Set up by sister publication World Leather in 2009, Tannery of the Year was established to celebrate the production of leather. All finalists have been nominated for the impressive standards and working methods, with a particular focus on how they look after the environment, their workers and even their local communities.
Finalists from Europe, China, Asia (excluding China), the Americas and Africa will join the celebration of good practice and excellent corporate social responsibility at the event in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Detailed reports on all the finalists have featured in World Leather over the past year, and will be available in a comprehensive Tannery of the Year 2015/2016 book. They can also be downloaded as pdfs (£1 for non-subscribers) from the leatherbiz Technical Library.
This year marks the programme’s fifth cycle of 18 months.
This year’s finalists are:
• Atlantic Leather, Iceland
• Couro do Norte, Brazil
• Kings International, India
• Tärnsjö Garveri, Sweden
• Wickett & Craig of America, US
• White Nile, Sudan
• Xinji Meihua, China
• Zhejiang Dazhong Leather, China
Image: The Tannery of the Year dinner in 2013, when the final was last in Hong Kong. The 2014 final took place in Shanghai
