Packer Leather has a Technical Team comprising of 12 staff, of various nationalities including Australian, New Zealand, Dutch, English and Japanese. All are fully trained from Leather Training Institutions from around the world, including the Leather & Shoe Research Association of New Zealand (LASRA) and the British School of Leather Technology (BSLT) in England. All technical staff members possess significant industrial hands-on expertise in all areas of leather manufacture. Furthermore, a number of team members are either in the process of obtaining, or have already obtained, further education qualifications, such as Management qualifications (Certificates, Diplomas and MBA level) and Statistical Process Control qualifications.

The team is allowed “free-wheeling” time throughout the working week, providing a culture to explore and develop our own ideas. We view failures during projects simply as additional incentives to succeed during developments, to ensure the leather making operations are robust by the time they reach full-scale production.

This diverse background of cultures and approaches to leather technology and processing provides a strong foundation for both novel leathers and novel approaches to technical issues.

We utilise the technical expertise of global technicians from the world’s most renowned chemical companies. In addition, we are members of various test markets for a number of proprietary leather chemical suppliers, and this keeps us apprised of new developments before they are officially launched on the market.

We look to gain technology by thinking outside the box and reviewing technologies from other industries. This way we can gain an added competitive advantage from our leathers.