LABORATORY NEWS
Entering our 101st year
and we now have a Martindale tester!
The Leather Research Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati will be hosting the following educational opportunities in 2025:
2025 Leather Orientation Course Schedule
Dates: April 9-10, 2025, and September 17-18, 2025.
This popular 2-Day course will take place at the Leather Research Laboratory on the campus of the University of Cincinnati and will cover a wide range of leather related issues such as physical structure, hide supply, tannery operations, finishing options, governmental regulatory concerns, problem solving, testing and customer acceptance issues. Attendees will be given an in-depth tour of the Leather Research Laboratory and will have a book with various leather samples to take home and use as a reference.
The cost of this course is $1100.00 per person with discounts available for multiple participants from the same company.
Customs Leather Orientation Course
Date: June 17-18, 2025
Raw to Wet Blue Course 5 day hands-on workshop
Date: July 14-18, 2025
To register for any of our classes, or for more information, please email Louisa at passanlb@uc.edu
News from the 115th Annual Convention of the American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA)
In May, Director Steve Lange presented a paper, Leather Species Identification via Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase Chain Reaction at the 115th Annual American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA) convention. This paper represented research work done in collaboration with Dr. Xiang Zhang at UC’s Genomics, Epigenomics and Sequencing Core.
At the convention it was also announced the Steve Lange will take over as Editor of the Journal of American Leather Chemists Association (JALCA)! He is preceded by Robert White, who held the position for thirteen years.
The JALCA has reported on research in the leather field on a monthly basis since 1906.
Congratulations, Steve Lange!
Photo Caption: Carol Adcock, American Leather Chemist Association Executive Secretary, presented retiring Journal editor Robert White with a plaque in recognition of his service as JALCA editor.