SELAMBQ - Spanish Entrefino Lambskins Quality project
Channel: UNICGROUPTV
Date: 2020-12-30

Activated at the end of 2017, SELAMBQ (Spanish Entrefino Lambskins Quality project) is a multi-stakeholders cooperation program that comes from the need to find solutions to the effective qualitative deterioration of the raw material used by a EU leather market niche: the Spanish Entrefino lamb, a material particularly appreciated by the highest end of the fashion market.

The SELAMBQ partnership brings together all the main actors of the value chain, supported by competent technical researchers: European tanneries processing entrefino lambskins (Riba Guixa, Russo di Casandrino, Colomer/Ledexport, Inpelsa, Bosch Girona, Bodin-Joyeux, Megisserie Richard, Megisserie Alric), associations representing the whole supply chain (Anafric - Spanish livestock and meat sector, Interovic - Spanish sheep and goat meat sector, Acexpiel - Spanish tanneries, Cotance - EU confederation of tanners, UNIC - Italian tanneries, FFTM - French tanneries), academic institutions and research centres (Universidad de Zaragoza, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, IRTA - Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology in Girona). The project, coordinated by dr. Jose Maria Gonzalez Sainz (Universidad de Zaragoza), is cofinanced by the EU (agricultural fund for rural development - EAFRD) and the Spanish Government. 

The main objective is to raise awareness in the upstream part of the supply chain, establishing some shared standards on breeding, slaughtering and flaying activities, that could eventually lead to the development of guidelines, process certifications and quality guarantees.