Margaret's the Couture Cleaner
Margaret's is a family-run company spanning seven decades. It has been a family-owned and operated specialty cleaning establishment for four generations. Since it is privately owned, the company takes a long-term vision and strategy for its brands, with an ethos of one of Margaret's core services: professional designer and couture leather, suede, fur, apparel, handbag cleaning, restoration, and repair. Professional cleaning is performed by hand and requires masterful skill and experience.
Testex AG
Sustainability, transparency and ethical standards are core principles to which TESTEX, as a part of the OEKO-TEX® association, is committed.
Founded in 1846, TESTEX is a globally operating and independent Swiss testing and certification company. In addition to its Swiss headquarters in Zurich, the TESTEX Group has 26 branches worldwide.
As a member of the OEKO-TEX® association since 1993, TESTEX offers companies of the textile and leather industry a range of certifications and services to have their products tested for harmful substances and to optimize their production conditions and their supply chains with regard to sustainability.
On the basis of a scientifically based catalogue of criteria and neutral laboratory tests, companies in the supply chain are given targeted support in implementing the human-ecological product safety they are striving for.
For leather articles at all stages of production, the LEATHER STANDARD by OEKO-TEX® is the only product certification of its kind on the market that tests such a wide range of chemicals for harmful substances. It is complemented by STeP by OEKO-TEX®, a modular certification system based on 6 modules whose goal is the permanent implementation of environmentally friendly production processes, the improvement of health and safety and the promotion of socially responsible working conditions in companies along the entire supply chain.
TESTEX strives for excellence in environmental performance which requires a continuous exchange with stakeholders, industry initiatives and monitoring of legal regulations to achieve international validity, and test criteria and limit values are either in conformance with or go far beyond national and international regulations.
Sustainable Leather Foundation
Our mission is to support the global leather value chain to learn, improve and protect using the People – Planet – Profit principle.
Environmental, Social and Economic responsibility are essential components for a sustainable industry. Our mission is to support the global leather value chain to learn, improve and protect for future generations, through the People ~ Planet ~ Profit principle.
At the heart of the foundation is the integrated SLF Transparency Dashboard™, linked to a certification standard that assesses the compliance and performance of leather manufacturers and associated facilities along the leather value chain, against the three pillars of sustainability • Environmental • Social • Governance.
The Sustainable Leather Foundation provides the structure and support to enable leather manufacturers and associated facilities to work on the reduction and improvement criteria necessary to be successful for a sustainable future. Our Accessible, Inclusive and Modular (A.I.M.) approach provides a consumer accessible window to sustainability performance, alongside fully transparent, detailed data for value chain partners. This enables better understanding of the product lifecycle management of leather articles and better-informed purchasing decisions at the consumer end.
By encouraging more secure value chain knowledge from farm to finished product, and by assessing and certifying leather manufacturers and associated facilities for their conformance and performance against the SLF Audit Standard (or other certification already in place), it is possible to independently foster better solutions and better outcomes.
The SLF Transparency Dashboard™ approach to attainment and performance is key to transparency for both value chain customers and the end consumer, providing integrity and value.
Faggiana Intermediazioni
Faggiana Intermediazioni, led by Fabio Faggiana and assisted by Sergio Gentilin, offers its expertise on leather hides to both customers and suppliers.
Our professional Italian team, operating in South America for years, has previous experience of evaluating and selecting Wet Blue and Crust leather.
We deal with the best tanneries of business for many years with mutual satisfaction and confidence. We hope to continue with the same ratio of seriousness in the future.
Thanks to software created specifically for our customers you have the ability to track their purchases, from the order date with date of receipt, the date of shipment until the arrival in port, in real time.
Gaitonde Leathers & Associations Pvt Ltd
Gaitonde continues to help the industry to procure tannery machines, raw materials, finished leather and micro pak anti mold products.
Gaitonde was founded in 1927 based in Chennai India as a service provider for the tanning industry, shoe & accessory industry.
Gaitonde has service backup office in dhaka, bangladesh and in saigon, vietnam. We also distribute adhesives and micro pak anti mold products covering most of india.
Several products are in bonded warehouse in Chennai so that we can distribute very quickly anywhere in India.
Gaitonde is a reliable service provider in india and abroad where there is production of footwear and accessories.
Gaitonde has partnership for supply of raw materials from reliable abbetiors / tanneries in France, Holland, Usa, New Zealand, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and Taiwan.
Team Gaitonde has professionaly qualified technicians to help customers.
Authenticae
We are a family business focused on leather biodegradability testing services and advice, with a passion for leather being part of a sustainable and circular economy.
We can help you understand how your leather interfaces with the ecosystem. Our growing suite of tests look at biodegradability, compostability, disintegration, plant response and chemical toxicity.
Authenticae is a family-owned laboratory and consultancy based in the UK. We are known for our in-depth technical knowledge and expertise on the leather tanning process. We have turned that knowledge into helping us and our clients understand the growing field of leather biodegradability. We believe that leather should be seen as part of the puzzle to a sustainable future, and that biodegradable leather is a significant piece of this picture.
Our team are diligent students of leather chemistry, biodegradability and lifecycle assessments. We are constantly developing and improving our knowledge and services, with the aim of providing you with real useable data and access to experts to help you in your journey.