Lowest Carbon Leather
We make the world's lowest carbon intensity leather, at 1.4 kg of CO2e per hide.
When it comes to reducing our carbon emissions, we’re leading the way. Reducing our carbon emissions is a key measurement of our impact on the environment, and we’re on a journey to carbon neutral by 2025.
We take sustainability seriously. So do our customers.
We’ve reduced the carbon intensity of our leather by 90% since 2003.
How we do this:
By minimising transportation mileage and reducing our carbon intensity. We look locally, to the resource on our doorstep. Over 98% of our rawhides are sourced within the UK and Ireland. Grass-fed beef and dairy farms in Scotland operate at low carbon, and the carbon footprint of Scottish beef is only circa 50% of the world average.
By circular manufacturing. We generate energy for our facilities from our by-products, using a patented circular manufacturing process that radically reduces our waste to landfill.
And lastly by innovation. Our range of innovative lightweight leather not only makes energy savings in production, but passes that on to the customer, so they in turn can make fuel and carbon savings when they choose us.
Key measurements.
Carbon Intensity
We lead the global leather industry, having reduced the carbon intensity of our leather by 90% since 2003.
Source of rawhides
Over 98% of our rawhides are sourced within the UK and Ireland.
All of our cattle hides are sourced from farms and abattoirs that can demonstrate that they meet the Five Freedom principles of animal husbandry and welfare.
Our LCA
We produce the world’s lowest carbon leather as measured using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). This is a methodology for measuring the true long-term impact of a service or product.
Our commitments.
2023
Our commitment to be accredited to the UN Global Compact and we have now successfully completed our self-assessment confirming compliance, which has been independently verified.
2023
By 2023 we have committed to have verified the integrity of our supply chain via an auditing protocol to meet internationally accepted standards.
2025
Through circular manufacturing, we will have zero process waste to landfill. So far, our progress has seen our metrics achieve 77% of our 2025 target.
2025
We are committed to reducing our direct (scope 1 and scope 2) impact to Net Zero as reported under SECR, which has already reduced by 90% from baseline towards our 2025 target.
ESG Report.
Our annual ESG Report summarises our activities, commitments and innovation agenda. All supporting and driving us towards a more sustainable future.
Producing low carbon leather is part of our work under Goal 12 of the UN Global Compact: Responsible production and consumption. Read more about how we uphold practices across our manufacture to support this in our report.