ALLPI Expert Team composed of Prof. Mekonnen Hailemariam and Mrs Birkinesh Gonfa with one Expert Trainer in Computer Assisted Designing (CAD) were on mission to Malawi to conduct Validation workshop of the Satellite Leather Design Studio and Business incubation Center in Blantyre and conduct CAD Training to selected SMEs from 6th to 17th March 2019. The validation workshop was conducted from 6th to 7th march 2019 and the training was from 8th to 17th march 2019 in Blantyre City.

On Tuesday, 26th February, 2019 The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism through the Malawi Enterprise Productivity Enhancement (MEPE) project hosted a business breakfast with potential buyers of leather goods and Textiles to encourage them to buy goods produced by the SMEs and Cooperatives in the Country.

Africa Leather and Leather Products Institute (ALLPI) is proud to announce its latest Memorandum of Understanding, between ALLPI and M/S. OLYMPIA ECO SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, INDIA (OLYMPIA).

The MOU was signed on February 7, 2018 by Prof. Mwinyikione Mwinyihija, Executive Director of ALLPI, and Mr. Syed Kassali. A, Director of OLYMPIA.

The ALLPI Annual Consultative Forum which was held during 11th – 13th December 2018 at Coral Port Sudan Hotel in Port Sudan, Sudan was successfully concluded. The Forum was held with the Theme of “Focusing on Innovation to Transform Africa’s Leather Sector towards Productivity and Competitiveness!”

Africa Leather and Leather Products Institute (ALLPI) in its efforts to develop the leather sector in the continent in general and the member states in particular, its Executive Director accompanied by the Cluster Development and Management Expert visited West Kurdufan State, Republic of Sudan.

West Kurdufan State contributes 26% of the total population of the livestock in Sudan with particular variety of sheep (Hamary) which it has big demand in Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Member States with some camels and considerable number of Goats and cattle.

The Expert from ALLPI with the consultant from Ethiopia Leather Industry Development Institute (LIDI) went to Ndola, Zambia to give training on Glove making from 19th to 26th November 2018 in Chingola Leather Cluster.

The main objective of this specific Training was to build capacity of the selected SME’s in industrial glove making and link them to Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) for product and marketing cooperation. This activity is in line with Zambia Leather Value Chain Strategy which the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry is implementing with cooperation of ALLPI. This Strategy used as a roadmap for transforming the leather sector into a robust sector that would generate value in the Zambian economy, consequently contributing to the realization of the Vision 2030.

A Team led by Executive Director of Africa Lather and leather products Institute (ALLPI) Prof. M. Mwinyihija participated in the “11th Asia International Conference of Leather Science and Technology (AICLST)”. The conference was hosted by the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) and organized by Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (SUST) in the city of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China on the 16th -19th Oct., 2018.

African Leather and Leather Product Institute (ALLPI) Conducted a training on Leather Footwear Design, Craftsmanship and Export Readiness for selected SME’s from Addis Ababa and different Region of Ethiopia from 8th to 12th October 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethio- International footwear clusters cooperative societies (EIFCCOS) compound.