{"id":23388,"date":"2025-12-19T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/leather-cluster-barcelona-highlights-the-value-of-catalonias-leather-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:55:53","slug":"leather-cluster-barcelona-highlights-the-value-of-catalonias-leather-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/leather-cluster-barcelona-highlights-the-value-of-catalonias-leather-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather Cluster Barcelona highlights the value of Catalonia\u2019s leather sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"656\">Leather Cluster Barcelona has reinforced its role as a key reference for Catalonia\u2019s leather sector through the recent participation of its Managing Director, M\u00f2nica Santamans, in the television programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaltaronja.cat\/anoia\/lapunt-leather-cluster-barcelona-amb-seu-a-igualada-posa-en-valor-el-sector-de-la-pell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"451\">L&#8217;Apunt<\/em>\u00a0de Canal Taronja<\/a>. During the interview, Santamans outlined the cluster\u2019s mission, vision and strategic objectives, underlining its commitment to member companies and to the overall development of the sector.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"256\" data-end=\"656\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monica-Santamans.jpg\" alt=\"MoniCA saNTAMANS\" width=\"1022\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monica-Santamans.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monica-Santamans-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anafric.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monica-Santamans-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2809\" data-end=\"3169\">She highlighted the cluster\u2019s role as a driver of collaboration, competitiveness and innovation, with a strong focus on results and collective impact. The promotion of collaborative and cross-cutting projects has positioned Leather Cluster Barcelona as a key platform for innovation, internationalisation and sustainability within the Catalan leather industry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3171\" data-end=\"3571\">Leather Cluster Barcelona currently brings together nearly 80 companies and stakeholders across the entire leather value chain in Catalonia. Based at the Adober\u00eda Bella site in Igualada, the cluster integrates activities ranging from livestock farming and the agri-food industry to tanneries, research and academia, chemistry, sustainability, design, craftsmanship, leather manufacturing and fashion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3573\" data-end=\"3815\">Santamans also addressed the cluster\u2019s strategic priorities and presented the main guidelines of the 2025\u20132030 Master Plan, aimed at tackling key challenges such as circular economy, sustainability, innovation, communication and sector image.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3817\" data-end=\"4093\">During the interview, she emphasised leather and its industry as a clear example of circular economy, noting that leather is a by-product of meat consumption that is recovered and upgraded, preventing waste and transforming it into durable, functional and high-value products.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4095\" data-end=\"4300\">This media appearance forms part of Leather Cluster Barcelona\u2019s proactive communication strategy to raise awareness and improve public understanding of the leather industry and its contribution to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leather Cluster Barcelona has reinforced its role as a key reference for Catalonia\u2019s leather sector through the recent participation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097,1096],"tags":[1191,2295],"class_list":["post-23388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anafric-en","category-sector-en","tag-leather-cluster-barcelona-en","tag-piel-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}