ISA Group’s launch of its new COSM business unit has generated widespread publicity, but the group’s commitment to leather is as strong as ever.
This is one of the messages to come across clearly in the group’s fourth corporate social responsibility report, which it published at the end of July, sharing figures for its operations last year.
In the report, ISA Group said it had launched COSM to meet customer requirements for “additional sustainable materials in response to current market trends”. It said it had spent years researching and developing with scientists materials that can work alongside its LITE (low impact on the environment) leathers.
It pointed out that it presents COSM materials as alternatives, not to leather but to petrochemical-based materials that have a high level of impact on the environment. It said COSM products represented high-quality, reliable additional materials for brands that are already buyers of LITE leather.
In the report, Macau-based ISA Group revealed that at the end of 2024, it had a capacity of 1 million square-feet of leather at its Mississippi TanTec Leather plant in the US, plus a capacity of 6 million square-feet per month at its Saigon TanTec facility in Vietnam.
Its Heshan TanTec Leather plant in China has a monthly capacity of producing 6 million square-feet of crust from wet blue, plus a capacity of 2 million square-feet per month of finished leather from crust.
The group’s fourth facility, TransAsia TanTec, which is also in Vietnam, is home to COSM. In addition, this plant has the capacity to produce 3 million square-feet of leather per month at the moment. It has plans to increase this to 10 million square-feet per month in the coming years.
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