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Every tannery owner I've spoken with in the last three months has the same question on the table: what do the US tariffs actually mean for us in Europe? Not for the American brands making noise about it — for us, on the floor in Arzignano or Santa Croce or Solofra. Here's the short answer: margins are tighter, uncertainty is higher, and your machines need to be running cleaner than ever. Here's the longer one. --- ## Why the Numbers Don't Add Up — and What That Signals The ba

Every year Assomac publishes its sector report. This year's numbers will be read wrong by anyone who stops at the surface. Italian leather-machinery companies down from 400 to 225 in thirty years. Revenue down 32%. Average ROE collapsed from 15.8% to 4.1% in seven years. Read like that, it sounds like an industry dying. Read inside the balance sheets of the 225 survivors, it's something else entirely — and what it means for your plant in 2026 is the part nobody is talking abo

It's May 2026. The European Commission has formally proposed removing leather from the EU Deforestation Regulation scope. After four years of lobbying by COTANCE and UNIC — over 22 meetings with EU lawmakers — the exclusion is finally on paper. The consultation closes June 1. Nothing is signed. And even if it passes, what you do in the next 90 days matters more than the regulation itself. ## Why This Isn't Over Yet The proposal to exclude leather from the EUDR is not a done d

Picture this: your quality control team approves a batch of leather goods. The color looks exactly right. Everything matches the client's specification. Then the shipment arrives, and the client calls — unhappy. The color isn't what they expected. This isn't a production problem. It's a lighting problem. ### Color doesn't exist on its own — it only exists as we illuminate it This is one of the most fundamental principles of colorimetry, and one of the most consistently overlo