The third Tannery of the Year Awards programme has been held at a gala dinner in Hong Kong on March 25, and in this competition, the PrimeAsia China, based in Guangdong Province, emerged as the winner of the regional award for China, and later as the overall global Tannery of the Year.
It is to be recalled that the “Tannery of the Year” competition, aiming to find the best examples of tanneries across the world, that have built the principles of corporate social responsibility into their way of working, was the World Leather Magazine’s initiative, started in 2009. It is carried out in the course of each 18-month Tannery of the Year cycle. The first competition was held on March 29, 2010 in Hong Kong in which the “Ethiopia Tannery Share Company” emerged as the winner of both the overall global “Tannery of the Year” and the regional award for Africa. The second cycle was in Shanghai on September 6, 2011 where Heller-Leder from Germany was named as the global Tannery of the Year for 2011 and Nakara, Namibia stood as regional winner from Africa.
In the current third cycle competition the five regional award winners were:
Africa – Seton AutoLeather, South Africa
Americas – SB Foot Tanning Co, US
Asia excluding China – Midori Hokuyo, Japan
China – PrimeAsia China
Europe – Sepici Grubu, Turkey
Finally from the five regional winners, the judges decided PrimeAsia China as “Tannery of the Year” award winner for the year 2013.
Source: http://www.leatherbiz.com/fullitem2.aspx?id=129039