S&V African Leather Magazine Vol15 No8 August 2021
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IN THIS ISSUE:
3 Sam Setter's Pills
- A new quip from Sam Setter in each issue.
03 Sustainability
- The Sustainable Leather Foundation, just a year old, has set itself a very ambitious target - lifting the global tanning industry, from grass roots to blue chip, to a sustainable model. And it's signing up members. MD Deborah Taylor explains.
07 An Eclectic View
- H. Proctor writes about Benford's Law. And if you understand him, you're very clever.
09 Sheep & Goat Skin Leathers
- Reducing water and chemical usage in tanneries by using inert polymer spheres in the drums, by Dr Clive Jackson-Moss of the ISTT.
12 Weights & Measures
- Compiled by the ISTT.
13 Trade Fairs & Academic Conferences
- The IULTCS to support leather students to virtually attend the XXXVI Congress in Ethiopia.
- Summary of information on the XXXVI IULTCS and the 5th World Leather Congress in November.
Advertisers in this Issue
ISTT (02), Italtan (11), Mimosa (10), Rolfes Leather Division (06), Stahl (OFC), Woodheads (08).
In The Next Issue
- Saag Jonker, whose name is synonymous with the ostrich industry, has just turned 80. We look at his contribution to the industry, and his plans going forward.
- Furniture leathers.
- Out on August 20.
- Sustainable Leather Foundation: The goal is to lift the entire tanning industry, from grass roots to blue chip, into a sustainable model
Internationally, leather is under fire both from (unfairly, generally speaking) the animal welfare lobby and (with much more justification in some instances) the environmental lobby. In Europe, which is the epicentre of anti-leather sentiment, individuals and companies in the leather industry have responded by creating bodies to both educate the public of leather's bona fides and to encourage the leather industry to live up to those expectations. ...moreTanzanian leather industry remains at low ebb
Himo Town/Area Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania - The response from Leather Association of Tanzania executive secretary Freddy Silvester Kabala to our questions for the feature on sheep and goat skins leathers in the last issue arrived too late for inclusion. Here are his answers: ...moreBENFORD’S LAW
When asked if the starting number digits of a dataset have equal chances of being there, the average person will say yes. That is in a collection of data the number digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 could appear, if equal, 11.1% of the time. Why wouldn’t they appear with equal randomness? So, to test this world hypothesis, data scientists, over 90 years, tried to show that digits in a data number set would appear 11.1% of the time. ...more
Footwear Industry Articles
- Manufacturer-buyer event: Results still to be tallied, but broad enthusiasm for more
The 2-day Retail Buyer Engagement & Manufacturer Onboarding Programme on 01 and 02 July was part of an effort to kickstart the R-CTFL Masterplan – which, from a footwear perspective at least, has appeared stalled.It was sponsored by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and implemented through the R-CTFL Masterplan Footwea ...moreAn industry with distinctive material riches, unable to sufficiently convert them into finished goods in a world class way“The project’s purpose,” said Courtney Grant, “is to be a robust, evidence-based strategy to address the leather and general goods sector’s challenges and unlock its growth potential.”The main headings of her presentation were:Creating the groundwork for a National Leather and General Goods Strategy:Fro ...morePalm Footwear: ‘One family’Palm Footwear was founded in July 1966 by Kasie Pattundeen, with 18 staff, making slippers.60 years later, with over 800 staff, it is among the biggest employers in the SA footwear industry and among the biggest manufacturers by volume.It remains a family business, headed by Rajeev and Kiran Pattundeen, with their children, Srishti and Rt ...more
Leather Industry Articles
- OBLIQUITY
Shareholder value is usually the result of running a good business, not a reliable operational principle for running one ...moreSam Setter's 'Pills': You have to be very clever to understand this document, but hopefully it will do some goodIn June, UNIDO launched an impressive document called “Guideline”. It is a very detailed, environment oriented, technical and scientific document where the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCP) play a prominent role. The document, peer reviewed, has been developed for UNIDO with the main contributor ...moreWhen communication moves faster than truth: Why credible, evidence-based information matters more than ever.We have never had more information at our fingertips. We have also never had to work quite so hard to determine which information we should trust. Communication today moves at extraordinary speed. Social media platforms, digital news, corporate communications, industry reports and, increasingly, artificial intelligence allow information t ...more
PPE Industry Articles
- 2nd SA PPE conference being planned for 2027 under the heading ‘Smart protection: the next era of PPE’Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA – Technology, artificial intelligence, connected devices and data are transforming the way we think about personal protection equipment — from how PPE is procured and selected, to how it is used, monitored and managed in the workplace.After the successful launch of the South African PPE conference hel ...moreBiodegradable disposable gloves ‘a growing trend’ in PPE
The poster is available to download in English in both PNG and PDF formats hereCompostable and biodegradable PPE are said to be rapidly growing trends internationally, lead by brands like Showa and HaPPE Earth.The nova-Institut für politische und ökologische Innovation GmbH in Hürth, Germany, has published an updated versio ...moreStatistical shape modelling for population-specific respirator design: Addressing fit failure in South African populations
Respirators are widely regarded as the last line of defence against hazardous airborne exposures. Whether protecting healthcare workers from tuberculosis, laboratory personnel from infectious samples, or workers exposed to carcinogenic dusts and fumes, respirators are often relied upon when other controls cannot eliminate exposure. This r ...more
