Driving leather innovation: ECCO Leather develops highly progressive leather qualities for some of the industry’s most iconic contemporary designers and brands. The company has Gold-rated tanning facilities in the Netherlands and across Europe, Southeast Asia and the Far East. ECCO Leather’s production network is characterized by clean, secure and flexible operations scaled to suit growing customer needs while ensuring seamless communication with customer-designated finished-goods manufacturers. To maintain its rich tradition in innovation ECCO Leather hosts collaborative multi-disciplinary creative laboratories aimed at uniting designers, buyers, production managers, marketers and leather technicians. These annual four-day HOT-SHOP events allow participants to envision new leather directions and work in integrated teams to prototype and sample new leather.