GERIC is formed by the following leading Leather Technology Centres: AIICA (Igualada, Spain), CTC (Lyon, France), CTIC (Alcanena, Portugal), ELKEDE (Athens, Greece), SSIP (Naples, Italy), LGR (Reutlingen, Germany).
GERIC constitutes the technological backbone of Europe's Leather industry. Its secretariat is managed by COTANCE, the Brussel's based representative body of European Tanners. GERIC meets regularly for exchanging information of crucial importance for maintaining the leadership of Leather research European based.
In a series of projects that have gained the financial support of the EU and National Research funding, GERIC has produced numerous tools for improving the technological performance of the leather industry and the training skills of its human resources. GERIC institutes provide testing, training, consulting, project and research services to domestic and foreign customers with guaranteed superior quality.
ICPI thus becomes GERIC's first member in Eastern Europe. ICPI's accession is an asset for the Grouping as it reaches out to the learned society in new EU member States.
The Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community (COTANCE) is the representative body of the European Leather Industry.
Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community
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