Icelandic fish leather manufacturer Atlantic Leather announced that it has been successful in using mimosa to produce vegetable-tanned leather from salmon skins. Until now, all of Atlantic Leather’s fishskin output was chrome-tanned.

Specialist business advisory firm FRP has confirmed to Leatherbiz that it is acting as the administrator of Chesterfield-based leather manufacturer Joseph Clayton & Sons Limited

Qualus, the tanning technology division of Xeros Technology Group has signed a 10-year contract with Mexican leather manufacturer Lefarc.

The local government in the Narok County area of Kenya has put in place plans for the construction of a new state-of-the-art tannery, according to local media reports.

Billy Tannery, a specialist goatskin tannery that set up near Northampton in 2017, the first new leather manufacturer to set up in the UK in many years, has released a sneaker.