Dr Kerry Senior, head of the UK Leather Federation, believes there is scope for establishing several new tanneries in the UK if investors could found.

“Obviously, the cost of production in the UK is higher than in places like China and India and, as a consequence, UK tanners service the top end of the market,” he told World Leather. “However, the bulk of our bovine raw material goes to Italy, also producers of quality leather, and it makes more sense, to me anyway, for those hides to be processed in the UK and the leather sold to the same markets as the Italians.

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