Industry & Innovation

摘要

Council members of the UK's Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists have toured the new facilities that the Institute for Creative Leather Technologies (ICLT) will occupy at the Waterside campus of the University of Northampton. A project that started in August 2018 will be completed in time for the start of the new academic year in September, but some teaching has already taken place in the new pilot tannery at Waterside. The pilot tannery has a mix of new equipment and refurbished plant from the former ICLT site at the former Park campus. There is now a larger finishing zone and a preparation area three times bigger than the previous site had. The new building also offers more laboratory and teaching space. Teaching rooms allow interactive participation, with lecturers' teaching materials accessible in real time to students via laptops. Large screens replace outdated whiteboards, while the use of smaller screens around the lecture theatres allow for an uninterrupted view of slides and lecture notes.