The SYL project consortium holds its second annual meeting in Greece
The consortium partners of the SYL project, 'Capacity building to the Mongolian Vegetable Tanned Yak Leather Cluster on bio-leather and bio-leather products', met in the Greek city of Athens to celebrate the completion of the second year of the project. It is no coincidence that Athens was selected as the host city, as the Mongolian partners were on a study visit to Greece during that week, in the framework of the project, to learn about the functioning of footwear companies, tanneries and sectoral organisations with a view to improving their capacities for the internationalisation of their products.
In the context of this annual meeting, the INESCOP's managers of the SYL project, Dr Francisca Arán, R&D coordinator, and Esperanza Almodóvar, Head of International Relations, presented the results and conclusions of the activities completed or in progress during the second year that had been led by the technology centre, namely:
- Training and technical advice for the introduction of the latest beamhouse, tanning and finishing techniques to obtain more sustainable vegetable-tanned yak leather. This activity took the form of a 6-day training course in Mongolia.
- Training for the implementation of monitoring and control techniques for tanning processes by integrating inline detectors.
- Technical advice for the implementation of low energy and low emission finishing techniques.
Likewise, the activities to be carried out during the third year of the project were planned, in which INESCOP will play a leading role in the review of the operations of the Mongolian tanneries belonging to the cluster of vegetable tanned yak leather producers, with a view to drawing up an action plan to facilitate their adhesion to the Leather Working Group, an international certification specific to the leather sector.