Our Brand members have immediate access to an established environmental auditing system that has been developed by the worlds’ leading centre of excellence for the leather industry in conjunction with several major brands and their tanner suppliers.
Other membership benefits include: 1. Reduced manpower and cost requirements to conduct environmental audits 2. In depth assessment and measurement of the tanner’s technical/environmental process and the ability to define improvement 3. A mechanism that supports the promotion of continual improvement in environmental performance 4. Demonstration of your brand’s commitment to environmental protection
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LWG expects any brands or suppliers that wish to use the LWG protocol to assess their leather supply chain to be fully engaged, paid up members of the Leather Working Group.
950+
Leather Manufacturers & Traders
Our objective is to develop/maintain a protocol that assesses the environmental compliance and performance capabilities of leather manufacturers and promotes sustainable environmental practices.
The LWG is a non-profit organisation, and our membership is made up of both subscription members and audited members. We are a multi-stakeholder, community-led initiative, and welcome the input and engagement from all of our members to drive us forward. We also collaborate with other key organisations and look to align, draw on each other's strengths, and avoid duplication of efforts where possible.
Subscription members fund all of the work that we do, and includes brands, suppliers, associations and certain traders (who cannot currently be audited). We rely on these subscriptions to do the work that we do.
Audited members include leather manufacturers, traders, sub-contractors, and commissioning manufacturers. The route to membership is through an audit. The LWG is not funded through audits.
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52+
Countries with LWG Members & LWG-Certified Facilities
0.79 billion ft2
Traceable finished leather made in LWG-certified facilities
1300+
Companies engaged in the LWG from across the global leather supply chain
~23%
Finished leather made in an LWG-certified facility (by volume)
800+
LWG-Certified Leather Manufacturers across the globe
5.4 billion ft2
Finished leather produced in LWG-Certified Facilities
4 billion ft2
Wet blue leather made in an LWG-certified facility (by volume)
1.97 billion ft2
Traceable wet blue material made in LWG-certified facilities
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LWG is made up of representative parties from different areas of the product supply chain, including brands, leather manufacturers, technical experts and other industry representatives.