World Leather podcast: Leather Leaders interview with Tom Schneider

A new edition of the World Leather Podcast is available for leather professionals around the world to listen to. In this episode, we offer an audio version of our recent interview with Tom Schneider, the founder of ISA TanTec.

In discussion with World Leather editor, Stephen Tierney, Mr Schneider discusses the impact of covid-19 so far on his company and on the leather industry in general. In the podcast, which is available here, he also gives his opinion of what 2021 is likely to hold.

Later in the conversation, Mr Schneider explains in detail why ISA TanTec has decided to launch a new division, Creation of Sustainable Materials (COSM), to prepare alternative materials, made from non-animal natural resources, for brands to use in vegan collections.

“We are not saying that this is an alternative to leather,” he says. “Absolutely not. I don’t want to have an alternative to leather. I want to have an alternative to the vegan materials, to the polyurethane stuff.”

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