Leather chemicals manufacturer Buckman has announced that its strategic marketing manager for leather, Elton Hurlow, retired at the end of 2021. Elton Hurlow has been leading figure in the industry for many years. He is a past-president of the International Union of Leather Chemists and Technologists Societies (IULTCS) and later became president of its commission for liaison and communications. He was the driving force behind the Global Leather Co-ordinating Committee (GLCC), a body that brings together the International Council of Hides, Skins and Leather Traders Association (ICHSLTA), the International Council of Tanners (ICT) and ILJLTCS to discuss matters of common interest. He also served as a member of the executive committee of multi-stakeholder body the Leather Working Group. His colleague and successor as president of ILJLTCS, Buckman's global innovation manager, Dr Luis Zugno, said Elton Hurlow had combined academic, professional, and commercial roles in a career in the international leather industry that spanned more than 40 years. A recent president of the German Leather Technicians and Chemists Association (VGCT), Martin Heise, died in December after a long period of illness. Mr Heise spent his entire career in the leather industry and was a popular and well known figure across the sector. He had been the global product manager for wet-end leather chemicals at the Smit & Zoon group since the end of 2019, a role he took up after more than 20 years at Trumpler. Earlier in his career he had spells at TFL, in raw materials buying at Naturin and at two tanneries: Bayern-Leder-GmbH (BLG) and, before that, Sudleder, where he joined immediately after finishing the leather technician course at Reutlingen in 1986. He was elected as president of VGCT in 2016 and remained in office until after the successful 2019 IULTCS Congress in Dresden.
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