Credit: Rino Mastrotto
Can quality, beauty and a concrete commitment to the environment coexist in the luxury sector and throughout the production chain? Is it possible to rethink the traditional method of working leather to drastically reduce the use of chemical agents and respect the nature of raw materials?
It is from these questions that Rino Mastrotto, a leading company in the production of leather for fashion, design and automotive, started to create HEARTH, the new leather that, with the same quality, guarantees an environmental impact. But what are the numbers of this project that aims to revolutionize the supply chain?
- 38 LITRES
These are the liters of water saved for each square meter of leather produced compared to the conventional method, translating into a 91% decrease in water use on the entire production. In concrete terms, in one year, this is 2,520 thousand liters.
- 22%
This is the percentage that represents the reduction of Co2e emissions (a measure that expresses the impact on global warming of a certain quantity of greenhouse gases compared to the same quantity of carbon dioxide) in the retanning, dyeing and fattening phases of bovine hides.
- 23%
This is the number that identifies the cut of chemical agents used in the retanning, dyeing and fattening phases of hides.
- 25%
This is the percentage relating to the reduction in the use of fossil resources of Heart compared to traditionally processed hides.
- 4 YEARS
The project was born from the research of Renato Bertoli, professor at the Istituto Conciario, who, after having dedicated his career to the study of solutions to reduce the environmental impact of leather production, found in Matteo Mastrotto, CEO of the company, someone who believed in his project, contributing with investments, a dedicated team and a new production methodology to the development of a leather with equal quality but with a much reduced environmental impact. A project that needed 4 years of support to see the light with measurable and concrete results, capable of changing the approach to leather processing.
