As a tannery your goal is to deliver high-quality leather to meet your customer’s demand. At the same time, you are challenged to continuously improve the sustainability in your processes and in your materials. A sustainable leather production is not an option, but a necessity. For your business and for our planet. Royal Smit & Zoon is your partner in differentiating you as a sustainable and futureproof tanner. We help you create real impact and maximize environmental benefits by optimizing your entire leather recipe with our ecoSimplicity tool and bio-based solutions. ecoSimplicity: rethinking post-tanning processes ecoSimplicity is your helping hand to boost the efficiency of post-tanning operations and to enable an environmentally friendly leather production at the same time. This approach demonstrates that by rethinking and simplifying conventional processes, high quality leather can be achieved in terms of looks, handling and other properties. The main benefits of ecoSimplicity: The leather making process involves fewer steps It enables water and energy saving Safer for operators because there is less handling involved on the busy factory floor More renewable leather by maximizing the use of existing and new innovative bio-based chemicals Are you interested to know more about ecoSimplicity and the possibilities for your tannery? Contact Laurence and Arnaud Arnaud Backbier Global Commercial Director Wet End [email protected] Laurence Irwin Global Product Manager Wet End [email protected] Interesting for you Discover more on Renewability Whitepaper Simplicity Simplicity is a concept for reducing the complexity at the heart of your operations: the leather-making process itself. Simplicity is an approach developed by Smit & zoon to simplify and boost the efficiency of post-tanning operations How to achieve and prove sustainability in chemicals? To attain more sustainable production of leather, the chemicals and processes need to be redesigned. How to do this and how to prove this? 6 vital elements in Post COVID-19 era The leather industry has been in transition for some years, with many value chain partners delivering very positive results. In this blog I am describing how I see the Post-COVID-19 period in the leather industry. I will do this by highlighting six of the major elements the industry is focusing or should be focusing on, for a sustainable society. Renewability Discover Stay informed Receive the latest company news and industry updates Subscribe Share this: