2023 Society of Leather Technologists & Chemists Conference

Society of leather Technologists & Chemists Ltd

125th Annual General Meeting

Saturday 22nd April 2023

The University of Northampton
(Remote attendance will be possible)

10.00 - 10.45	Registration Tea and coffee on arrival

10.45 - 11.00	Official Opening and Welcome

11.00 - 11.45	Keynote Procter Memorial Lecture Chromium Tanning and CrVI: Present Situation, Future Evolution, Related Problems and Possible Solutions Elisabetta Scaglia, Chemical and Environmental Manager, UNIC

11.45 - 12.15	Practicalities of Handling Polymer Spheres in Full Scale Production Vikrant Pratap, CEO, Qualus

12.15 - 12.45	Organic Combination Tannage: An Eco-Benign Tanning Prof. Ali Elnaeim Musa, Dean, College of Applied & Industrial Sciences, University of Bahri

12.45 - 13.15	Leather Degradability: Its Past and Future Karl Flowers, Technical Director, Authenticae

13.15 - 14.15	Lunch

14.15 - 14.45	Sustainability and Materials: Normative Evolution Concerning Circular Economy Gustavo Adrian Defeo, CEO, Ars Tinctoria

14.45 - 15.30	Institute for Creative Leather Technologies Review of Research Papers with current students. Round Robin of 5 to 10 minute quick sessions from the current students at ICLT

15.30 - 15.45	Coffee Break

15.45 - 16.10	Mulberry: Made to Last Rosie Wollacott Phillips, Head of Sustainability, Mulberry

16.10 – 16.25	Presentation of Certificates including the Axel Landmann Certificate

16.25 – 16.30	Closing Remarks John Hubbard, SLTC President

16.30 - 17.15	126th SLTC Annual General Meeting

Evening	Cocktail Reception and SLTC Annual Dinner Dance
19.30 – 00.30	Park Inn, Silver Street, Northampton, NN1 2TA

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