The document discusses sustainability practices in the leather industry. It provides examples of strategies used by several global companies, including: LVMH's carbon fund and LIFE program to reduce environmental impact. LANXESS uses renewable materials and technologies like Organic Wet White to reduce chemicals, water usage, and effluent. Mycoworks develops leather from mycelium as a sustainable alternative. Nike moved its sustainability team upstream and developed indexes to measure practices. However, Indian leather companies still face challenges adopting sustainability due to issues like ownership, legislation, and information access.

1. Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Sustainability practices across Industries
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Sustainability practices across Industries

2. Sustainability Practices Of Leather Industry
By
Group-13, Section-F
Um15380 – Mohit R Agrwal
Um15381- Purnapurnanshu Jena
Um15382- Sibasish Biswal
Um15383- Payel Mitra
Um15384- Piush Virmani

3. Contents
 Global perspective on Sustainability – Example of European Countries
 Some Few Leather Companies Sustainability Process
 LVWH- Paris
 LANXESS- India
 MYCOWORKS – San Fransico
NIKE- India
 Challenges facing by Indian Leather Industries
 Conclusion

4. Sustainability and European Leather Industry
Raw material processed Process Efficiency Pollution Prevention
Sustainability of leather production is essentially based on three pillars:
• 15 European partners, is implementing a project
named IND – ECO
• for supporting tanners and footwear
manufacturers
cotance
• substitution towards minimum usage of
hazardous chemicals and reduction in releases
of spent chemicals into natural environment
Consumption of Chemicals
• aiming at developing water efficient processes and
water recycling technologiesWater Consumption and Discharge
Initiatives By EU-

5. Sustainability By strategies of LVMH: Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
 carbon fund - each brand pays into based on its energy consumption. The $5.3 million invested for
development technologies for sustainable practices in manufacturing it’s leather products.
 Green Supply Chain and Green Marketing - working on green supply chain and green marketing
concepts of its leather products in order to catch the latest trend of eco-friendly fashion.
 LIFE program - Started in 2012 .- development of newer management tools for treatment of leather by-
products and waste products and integrate the changes
 Use of Salmons’ skin - by-product of the fish which is sourced in Chile. Replacing leather line from
alligator skin and snake skin in order to protect illegal wildlife trade and poaching.

6. Sustainability Strategies By LANXESS- India
LANXESS - Leather Chemical Producer, used by leather industries as -
Preservative and liquoring agents
Dyestuffs and pigments
Tanning and Finishing Auxiliaries
Renewable raw materials
and non-toxicological
substances
Reducing energy and
water requirements , use
of by-products
Longer service life, low
leather consumption, good
recycling
LANXESS Sustainable Leather Management

7. Sustainability Strategies By LANXESS- India - Solution for Sustainability
ORGANIC WET WHITE – X-Tan Tech
• Use of metal and aldehyde free organic tanning agent ->non-toxic ->No pickling-,
so reduction in salt load in effluent -> Preserves water and reduce environmental
contamination
X-Biomer Technology
• Used biodegradable polymer -> wet blue leather – demand by automotive leather,
child footwear -> Reduction in effluent load -> Chemical oxygen demand lower by
30% -> 52% degrade in 28 days
Water Based Pigments
• solvent-free pigment dispersions featuring very fine particles -> products are casein-
free and do not contain any emulsifiers -> Demand by leather industries for finishing
quality
ENZYMATIC Beam House – X-Zymer Technology
•enzyme-based soaking and unhairing solution
•lower effluent load and reduced need for chemicals.
•In the process the temperature and the pH of the float can be controlled

8. Sustainability Strategies by MYCOWORKS
• Redefining leather with Mycelium
• Established – 2013
• San Francisco
Mycelium : is a dense structure of mushrooms, which is actually a skin of mushroom
• Step 1: Grow Under Varying Conditions
• Step 2: Tanning resulting Fungal Mat
• Step 3: Finally able to make leather.
Engineered
to perform Versatile Cost
Comparative
Manipulated Utilization
of resources
Sustainable
Advantages

9. • Nike’s sustainability and labor practices from 1998 to 2013
• Focuses on the successful steps Nike took up and down the supply chain to processes more
environmentally friendly, and the challenges and complexities it was still facing in its efforts to
improve labor conditions.
• Labor Practices
• Nike made significant changes in its sustainability practices, including moving its
Corporate Responsibility team much further upstream in the organization, where it could
have a greater impact on decisions by providing input early in the process.
• Environmental and Other areas of sustainability check
• The company also developed multiple indexes that measured its sustainability practices
and those of its independent contract manufacturers.
Sustainability Strategies By NIKE

10. Challenges Faced by Indian leather Industry
•Due to ownership
•Environmental Impact of leather
•Technical Barriers
•Poor Legislation and Lack of supervising Facilities
Conclusion
Indian leather domestic company’s sustainability process is still on way of development
Due to above challenges , leather companies are still behind the international context in concern to
sustainability method
The market is also so asymmetry that, the information of getting about the sustainability adopted by domestic
companies is quite difficult

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