The Sustainable Leather Forum took place in Paris for the sixth time on September 9.

Sessions at the event covered developments in raising livestock, the perspectives of leather manufacturers in France, the environmental footprint of leather and current initiatives in corporate social responsibility.

Welcoming delegates at the start of the day, the president of leather industry association Alliance France Cuir, Christophe Dehard, said his hope was that the discussions at the Sustainable Leather Forum would “vulcanise exchanges between supply chain partners”.

He explained that what he envisaged were more in-depth conversations involving raw material suppliers, tanners and finished product manufacturers and brands, and for them “not just to hear, but to listen carefully to one another”.

Image shows Alliance France Cuir president, Christophe Dehard, its general manager, Marc Blondel, and the moderator of the Sustainable Leather Forum, Nicolas Rossignol.