09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 11.00 Procter Memorial Lecture: ‘The Ecological Tannage – Challenges and Progress’
Dr Heinz-Peter Germann, director, Lederinstitut Gerberschule, Reutlingen
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 11.45 ‘REACH – The impact on leather and leathergoods’
John Hubbard, SATRA Technology Centre
11.45 – 12.15 ‘The impact of beamhouse processing on microbiological flora’
Anne Lama, British School of Leather Technology
12.15 – 12.45 ‘Consumer leather care - why everyone in the industry needs to be more involved’
Andy Alcock, Leather Training & Technical Dept
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 ‘TBA’ BLC Leather Technology Centre
14.30 – 15.00 ‘Finishing – art, craft or science?’
Axel Landmann, SLTC
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee
15.15– 15.45 ‘Leather and subjectivity: an exploration of current understandings around leather and leather objects’
Anca Roberts, The University of Northampton
15.45 – 16.15 'Mimosa extract manufacture’
Nigel Payne, Forestal Mimosa
16.30 – 17.30 111th SLTC Annual General Meeting
19.30 – 20.00 Cocktail Reception
20.00 - Midnight SLTC Annual dinner dance
