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Sustainable development is a key concern for companies in our sector. Manufacturers are committed to adopting policies that meet the expectations of all their stakeholders, be they clients, consumers, employees or legislators. For them, sustainability and environmental impact are just as important as improving product quality.
CTC's ALIS innovation ensures end-to-end traceability of the leather production chain. This solution works for both bovine and ovine skins.
Every company in the sector (slaughterhouses, tanneries) can therefore install this traceability system on its production site to highlight its responsible management and control of resources.
Traceability is essential to ensure transparency at every stage of the supply chain.
By taking into account the role of each link in the chain, from breeder to manufacturer, we have the opportunity to improve product quality while at the same time meeting consumers' growing expectations in terms of ethics and sustainability. This approach also generates added value, by building customer trust and encouraging more responsible practices within the sector.
Let's work together to create an ecosystem where quality and responsibility go hand in hand.
Find out more about traceability
A few years ago, traceability was all about improving the quality of hides and skins. As manufactured products began to move upmarket, the market needed more high-quality leathers with as few defects as possible.
With traceability, targeted corrective action can be taken on defects generated upstream, at the farm or the slaughterhouse. In this way, it contributes to improving the quality of the raw material.
The second aim of traceability is to guarantee compliance with quality standards.
In the leather industry, transparency and traceability are essential to ensure that practices comply with environmental and social standards. This plays a key role in protecting our natural resources, combating deforestation and preserving ecosystems, while ensuring animal welfare. By adopting these principles, we are taking a major step towards a more responsible and ethical industry.
By associating each product with precise data, from the birth of the animal to the cutting of the leather, brands can not only prove their commitment to sustainable production methods, but also build consumer confidence.
Together, let's build a future where every step of the value chain respects our planet and its inhabitants.
For several years now, CTC has been working on the development of tools to link data to a product reliably, securely and automatically.
Today, CTC is able to offer an industrial solution for end-to-end traceability of the leather supply chain. This solution, called ALIS (Automatic Leather Identification System), consists of two modules: ALIS MARKING and ALIS READING.
The first module, ALIS MARKING uses CO2 gas laser technology to mark the hide or skin with a unique code assigned to each animal, for secure identification. This marking can be applied to all types of hides and skins (from large to small cattle and sheep), at shoulder level, at the fresh or salted raw hide stage (the latter is recommended). It was designed and patented by SLCR to withstand leather transformation processes.
The second module, ALIS READING, is an industrial vision solution for reading these markings at wet-blue and crust sorting stations.
This technology is based on a camera system which, combined with artificial intelligence, can read markings that have been distorted by the tanning process.
