The event gathered people related to the leather industry, representatives of Universities, Secondary Schools, public entities as well as the population in general.

During the morning, visits were made to:
-       a modern leather industry (Inducol, SA) that manufactures fur leathers, mainly to clothing and it exports about 90% of its production;
-       a Waste Water Treatment Plant which collects the effluents of about 80 leather industries in Alcanena;
-       the landfills to sludges and leather solid wastes.

During the afternoon a Seminary under the theme “Science and Technology in the Leather Industry” took place in CTIC – Leather Technological Centre, with a very interested audience of 130 people, of which nearly half were young students (see hereunder for speeches).

At the end of the day work the participants had the opportunity to know in details the evolution that has occurred in the leather industry, concerning its several aspects, since the employed technologies to the link with the fashion world, as well as the most recent leather uses, such as in the car and aeronautics industry.

The efforts made in the environmental branch were stressed considering the investments that have been being made on the infrastructures previously mentioned.