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<br /> www.leathermag.com June 2018<br /> INTERNATIONAL<br /> Pioneer Solutions for Sustainable Leather<br /> • Innovative chrome free and metal free leather systems<br /> • High exhaustion tanning processes<br /> • Vegetable tanning<br /> ECO-DESIGN OF CHEMICALS<br /> A N D TA N N I N G P R O C E S S E S<br /> FOR LOW CARBON FOOTPRINT<br /> Leather<br /> www.silvateam.com<br /> Exotics conservation • Chrome reduction • West Bengal focus<br /> <br /> From the editor<br /> June 2018 Volume 220 No. 4881<br /> EDITORIAL<br /> Editor Carl Friedmann<br /> carl.friedmann@compelo.com<br /> Chief sub-editor Thom Atkinson<br /> Sub-editors Jim Findlay, Jason Riley<br /> Senior feature writer Greg Noone,<br /> Feature writers Grace Allen,<br /> Neil Thompson, Andrea Valentino<br /> Contributing writers Jim Banks, Sanjib Kumar Das,<br /> Dibyendu Bikash Datta, Ross Davies, Christian Doherty,<br /> Vera Dordick, Andrea Guolo, Don Ohsman, Julian Osgood<br /> Group art dir<a title="Leather June 2018 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=1"> www.leathermag.com June 2018 INTERNATIO</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=2"> </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=3"> From the editor June 2018 Volume 220 No. 4881 </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=4"> your dreams, our tools together we go beyond </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=5"> Contents In this issue 19</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=6"> </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=7"> The intelligence > News News ENVIRONMENT Acti</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=8"> New generation of sili</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=9"> The intelligence > News IMPORTS & EXPORTS Ban</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=10"> MAXIMISE YOUR COLOURS, MINIMISE YOUR WASTE </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=11"> The intelligence > News DEVELOPMENT EU launc</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=12"> </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=13"> The intelligence > News BUSINESS GST exits ba</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=14"> The intelligence > News DEVELOPMENT New glo</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=15"> The intelligence > News INNOVATION ‘Translu</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=16"> </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=17"> The intelligence > Vital statistics Vital sta</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=18"> 17 – 20 September 2018 Paris Le Bourget THE INTE</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=19"> The intelligence > Market analysis Push ahead of </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=20"> READY FOR A CHANGE THE NEW THROUGH-FEED EMBOSSIN</a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=21"> The intelligence > Market analysis </a> <a title="Leather June 2018 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/9548c138?page=22"> PARIS S E P T. 1 9 - 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