Innovation & sustainability

DERCOSA is fully committed to a solid environmental respect and tries to operate through careful and responsible usage of natural resources and an understanding of the most current requirements to protect the environment.

Sustainable energy
Waste reduction
Environmental preservation

Because we care for the environment

Dercosa is fully committed to Environmental Responsibility.

We are always updated with the current legislation, and we look forward to improving our products every day.

Our team is continuously identifying areas for energy improvement, defining programs and plans to progressively improve all these aspects:

  • Reduction and reuse of water
  • Use of renewable sources for electricity
  • Adoption of advanced chemical-saving technologies
  • Reduction of emissions into the atmosphere
  • Strict control of water effluents
  • Reduction of general waste
Environmental responsibility
Environment Continuous improvement
R&D lab
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Production drum
Process
Testing equipment
Lab

INNOVATION

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT

The Research & Development Department creates products with more and more performing characteristics and low environmental impact.

Our challenge is to render our production process that is faithful to tradition as scientific as possible.

Our goal is to obtain higher product performances in compliance with actual eco-sustainability.

We are looking to the top-quality hides, and our selection is carried out by our specialists based on quality, weight, surface quality and aesthetics. Each individual piece is allocated to the respective customer requirements according to its suitability for the intended use.

Our technicians are constantly developing new and trendy colors, both to satisfy customer requirements and to add fashion to the existing Collections.

Continuous improvement Quality-driven selection Sustainable focus

Innovation

QUALITY CONTROL

The physical-mechanical laboratory carries out tests aimed at controlling quality and verifying the requirements requested by the client.

Our team is equipped with lastometers, veslics, penetrometers, gore hydrotesters, crockmeters, thermostatically controlled drying ovens and colour assessment cabinet.

All our suede is subject to strict internal testing before it leaves our production facility. We do this to guarantee and ensure our consistently high standards.

We are proud to confirm that our leathers are able to withstand the most demanding requirements. Dercosa Quality Control Team always assures that our materials respond to the most updated reglamentation, and of course does not contain harmful substances.

We are proud to have been awarded Gold in Leather Working Group Standard, and we are working on the ZDHC program, having already obtained the first level of this Standard.

Leather Working Group · Gold ZDHC · Level 1
Quality control equipment
QC Lab Explore
Material testing
Testing
Lab team
Compliance

Reducing water consumption and chemical product use

At Dercosa, we use the water from our wheel .

Water consumption −50%
Chemical products use −15% (Osmosis plant + R&D)

Continuous investments

in the latest technology machinery

Modern drums

more energy with less water

R&D research

to improve production process

Osmosis plant

and R&D to reduce chemical products use

Recycling energy and reducing waste

At Dercosa, we use the energy from our wheel.

Energy consumption reduction −10%
Self-consumed energy 40% (696 kW photovoltaic plant)

1915 panels – 815 Wp

Total self-consumption generated power

696 kW. = 40% of our electrical energy consumption (700.000 kW/h per year)

More efficient machinery

Investments in our water treatment plant

24 hours digitally control through the whole process

Sustainability

LEATHER IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Circular economy

Learn how our process supports long-term value and reduced impact.

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