JBS Couros invests 40,000 euros in a new research center in Italy
10 | 12 | 2022
JBS Couros announced this Tuesday (March, 29th) an injection of 40,000 euros to create a research center that will support the development of knowledge about the sustainability of biomaterials – bearing in mind the beginning-to-end process – Biomat in Milan, Italy. The organization will be managed by Spin 360, a consulting company specializing in sustainable business models. The initiative aims to promote and consolidate in-depth scientific studies into the environmental impacts on the value chain of biomaterials – including leather – and establish product parameters and best practices.
With this investment, JBS Couros is strengthening its commitment to the sustainability of its products and processes by becoming one of the founders of the new research center, embarking on studies that provide data bases with more precise information and which better represent the livestock farming-related impacts in the product’s final balance.
The investment by JBS Couros was announced by two founding companies of the project at an event preceding the Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF), one of the industry’s major tradeshows organized in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The Sustainability manager of JBS Couros, Kim Sena, and the CEO of Spin 360, Federico Brugnoli, were present at the ceremony.
At the pre-event, JBS Couros also announced having concluded 36 new Life Cycle Assessments – LCA with 18 studies about its product range in the furniture market and 18 in the auto industry. The new LCAs strengthen the results of the first evaluation undertaken in 2020 in partnership with Asiatan, which showed that the production concept Kind Leather is efficient – among other aspects, for its contribution to generating added value and sustainability to the leather production chain from which waste becomes raw materials for other markets, such as pharmaceuticals, in a circular economy context. The analyses take into account all phases of leather processing, from the extraction of the raw materials to the delivery of the product to the client.
“We continually invest in knowledge to ensure that sustainability is factored in and enhanced in leather production processes. Kind Leather is more than a product innovation. It is a philosophy that fosters better use of raw materials and natural resources”, points out Sena.
In comparison with the environmental indicators of producing conventional leather, Kind Leather uses less electricity (up to -62%), fewer chemical products (up to -40%), consumes 62% less water and generates less waste throughout its production (up to -93%). Information in the box below.
Escrito por: Oxigenweb