The UK’s Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists (SLTC) hosted its 127th international conference on April 25 and 26. The event took place in Glasgow this year.
There were speakers from Italy, South Africa and Lithuania, as well as from the UK. This year’s Atkin Memorial Lecture came from Dr Kerry Senior, director of Leather UK and secretary of the International Council of Tanners. He spoke about the role of technology in the future of leather.
The Atkin Memorial Lecture is the SLTC conference’s keynote presentation. It commemorates that contribution to the leather industry of William Atkin, who lectured in leather chemistry and leather manufacturing at the University of Leeds for a large part of the twentieth century.
Delegates also had the opportunity to tour Scottish Leather Group’s manufacturing facilities in Renfrewshire and attend a gala dinner in the evening, during which the presidency of the Society was formally handed over to Sustainable Leather Foundation’s Deborah Taylor, succeeding outgoing president Professor William Wise of Eurofins Sustainability Services.
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