Hidenet Special Report: Lineapelle Day 1
It is a crowded fair, right from the opening, but there are also many market problems. This is how Lineapelle starts, amidst the trust that always accompanies the most important appointment in the world for the leather industry and concerns about a general slowdown in orders.
Italian tanneries have not only lost the volumes of furnishings, a destination for which substantial changes are not foreseen in the short term, but also those of the automotive, grappling with a particularly complicated historical transformation. At this stage, the programming for leather goods orders is also lacking. The big luxury brands are delaying orders and a month of a slowdown in production is expected because, apparently, international sales are not working at last year’s pace.
In Tuscany, various companies tell us that the levels of water purification are at historic lows. The cause of this slowdown is not only Gucci, which is decreasing production due to the change in the style direction but also other important brands. Footwear is also lagging behind, but
