CTC's platforms provide a comprehensive, innovative tool for working on all stages of the process in the fields of leather, footwear, leather goods, glove-making, PPE, and laboratory quality control. These facilities bring together an entire industry’s expertise, providing access to the cutting-edge and even emerging technologies from our research and standardisation programmes.

Our facilities and teams are available for manufacturers that need support to validate a product design, choose an investment (in equipment or technology), train their teams, or build a prototype.

 

CTC Campus

The CTC Campus is a unique, multi-purpose facility that serves manufacturers. It has technology platforms and workshops dedicated to manufacturing leather, footwear, leather goods, and gloves.

These are complemented by biomechanical platforms and test laboratories for fundamental research and new product development.

This innovative complex, which is over 1,750 m², is available to companies that want to develop their products with CTC. Technology, modernity, and proximity are the key assets of these unique facilities.

This uniq place is equipped with:

• ten training rooms
• a tanning platform covering almost 750 m²
• a 720m² footwear and leather goods platform, including a footwear and leather goods design office, a shape design workshop, and a range of cutting-edge equipment
• a ‘living lab’ or biomechanical testing laboratory equipped with the latest technological tools: 3D motion capture, biomechanical analysis on force mats, etc.
• accredited physical testing and chemical analysis laboratories

CTC Living Lab

 

CTC documentation centre

Information is at the heart of competitiveness and business performance. It stimulates technological innovation, which has become a major challenge for companies.

CTC has a unique documentation centre specialising in the scientific and technical aspects of leather, footwear, leather goods, and glove-making. It includes a collection of more than 5,000 books, which can be used to research models, designers, and footwear and leather goods brands. Statistics, market studies, standards, patents, and conference proceedings are also available, as well as the various resources published by CTC.

The documentation centre houses a leather library, a veritable showroom for the expertise of French tanners and leatherworkers. It contains about a hundred leathers, most of which are whole. A digital leather library completes the collection, providing information on the leather on display and leather in general. Each season, our designers exhibit a selection of materials based on fashion trends. This beautiful workspace not only allows visitors to discover the many properties of leather as a material, but it also showcases its infinite creative potential. Since 2022, a selection of emerging materials, all tested at CTC, has been added to this space.

The documentation centre is open to companies, students, trainees, and designers, by appointment.

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CTC training facility

Founded in 1977, the CTC training centre brings together more than 40 trade experts with the unique status of trainer-consultant-researcher. They work with companies of all sizes and offer customised programmes tailored to specific issues.

CTC is committed to meeting the training needs of the different sectors of the fashion, luxury goods, sports, distribution, personal protective equipment (PPE) and environment industries.

We work mainly with French companies in the leather, leather goods and footwear (city, sport, PPE) sectors, providing training on site or at our premises in Paris and Lyon.

CTC is also developing a range of distance learning courses including microlearning, virtual classes and professional tutorials.

Should you need bespoke training, such as a course in a foreign language, please do not hesitate to contact us with details. Our team will get back to you as soon as possible.

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