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Blundstone opts for cheaper Asian production facilities

19/01/2007

The company has been in operation since 1870 and services markets in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, North America and Scandinavia. It is one of a small number of footwear manufacturing companies with its own tannery, which was built in 1830. The tannery operation was the pilot development for a CSIRO tanning methodology, based on the recovery and recycling of chemicals.


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