Team Blog

With Sadesa, a leading tanning group strongly committed to sustainability, we focused on the role of technology, environmental compliance and circular economy in the leather industry and much more.

This video interview aims at recognizing Sadesa as one of the best Traceability Performers over more than 300 users that are actually using the ID Factory platform.

The topic of today’s interview with Daniele Nonnato, CEO of Multimac, is digitalization and supply chain management innovation as key for empowering greater reliability, transparency and efficiency. Since 1972, Multimac implements those principles through real time traceability services and technological solutions for creating digital twins.

Pieralberto Ripari is the CEO of the heel factory Albert Components, where technological innovation and handcrafted tradition fuse together in the development of a new approach towards sustainability: The Green Project.
In this episode we discussed together the main drivers and constraints that are faced by footwear brands when buying more sustainable heels.

In this episode we learn about the leather value chain, explaining why leather is a by-product, and its difference from vegan leather with Egbert Dikkers, Global Director Sustainability at Smit & Zoon, Chairperson of the Management Board at Leather Naturally Association.

Juliane Michel is the Head of Corporate Responsibility at ISA-TRAESKO, a German international shoe producer. She says that to engage consumers and support them in making responsible buying decisions it is necessary to spread truth, knowledge and so transparency. We also talked about the upcoming Due Diligence law about social compliance in supply chains and ethical sourcing. Watch the interview to learn more!

With Federico Vianello, Head of the traditional private label division at Novi Footwear, we discussed the challenges for marketers in communicating sustainability and encouraging a more sustainable consumption, based on the experience of Love Our Planet.

With Sustainable Talks with N&N – Niccolo Duranti, Senior Director Fabrics and materials FTW and Accessories at Michael Kors, and Nicolò Giusti, Senior Manager Sourcing and Production at Tommy Hilfiger – we discussed the problem of greenwashing in the fashion industry, trying to answer the question “can fashion be sustainable? ”.

In this episode we deepened ESG standards in business, sustainability issues and much more with Alexandra Pelka – Head of Europe at Litehide™, Consultant at United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and SDG Consultant at AP Projects.

With Deborah Taylor, CEO at Sustainable Leather Foundation and Consultant at United Nation Economic Commission for Europe, we questioned how brands can concretely implement a sustainability change in fashion through traceability and transparency.