The Footwear Club

A new tanning district is being built in Egypt. The Master Plan was carried out by Assomac Servizi Srl, the service company of the industrial association that brings together the Italian manufacturers of technology for the footwear, tanning and leather industries, which considered the possibility of transferring the tanneries that are currently in the city of Old Cairo.
The Assomac Servizi Srl technicians proposed a solution that, modeled on the Italian industrial districts, suggested the transfer of the tanning, footwear and leather production sites to the areas of Badr City - Robaiki Area, near Cairo, which will be equipped with modern technology to ensure environmental compatibility and functional aspects. In the area a Technological Service Centre will also be built equipped with the most modern infrastructures and with technical and managerial training Programmes, in order to provide tangible support to the companies in the district.

The project, which is a true modernization plan for the Egyptian leather industry, is now entering its implementation phase, thanks to financing made available by the Egyptian government and through help that has also been offered by Italian Cooperation. Assomac Servizi Srl will play a very important role in this operational phase too, and will act as consultant to the Egyptian Ministry of Industry.

The initiative was presented in Bologna during a press conference that was held on Wednesday October 29th during Tanning-Tech, the leading trade fair for technology and chemical products for the tanning industry which a large delegation of Egyptian and Italian business owners interested in the project also attended.

For the guests, the Egyptian Commercial Consul, Abdel Aziz El Sherif, the Chairman of the Chamber of Leather Tanning and the Arab Federation of Leather Industries, Mamdouth Th M. Mekki, the Africa and the Middle East Chapter Chairman and Arab Union for International Exhibitions and Conferences Secretary General, Hisham El-Haddad and the General Secretary of the Arab Union for Leather Industries, Yousef A. Sa'ad all intervened at the presentation. Amilcare Baccini, Managing Director of Assomac and Secretary General of Tanning-Tech and Mario Pucci, head of international relations at Assomac instead played host.

This is not all, however. On this occasion, a new trade fair was also presented. This is the "Cairo International Leather Show" which will take place for the first time from 9th-12th December 2004 in the Egyptian capital. The aim of the initiative is to provide the Egyptian leather industry with an important occasion for the promotion and commercialization of their semi-finished and finished products and to provide the area with an international event that could be the market place for the Region, an area with more than one billion inhabitants.

For more information, please contact:
ASSOMAC
National Association of Italian Manufacturers of 
Footwear, Leathergoods and Tannery Machines
Via Matteotti, 4/A - P.O.Box 113 - 27029 Vigevano (PV) 
Tel. +39-0381-78883 r.a. Fax +39-0381-88602
Email: info@assomac.it  Website: www.assomac.it