Assomac seeks stronger dialogue as Italy’s leather machinery revenues fall 11%
Italy’s leather machinery makers saw revenues fall to about €512 million, and Assomac is forming a new forum across tanning, leathergoods and footwear.
Italy’s leather machinery makers are heading into a weaker market with a new message: talk more, and do it together. Assomac said revenues for the tanning, leathergoods and footwear machinery sector came in at about €512 million, down 11% year on year, with tanning machinery off nearly 25%, leathergoods machinery down 9.8% and footwear machinery down 4%.
The pressure did not start there. Assomac’s 2024 materials said exports were down 6.77% in the first nine months of 2024, more than 78% of companies expected lower orders, and preliminary turnover for the year fell 12% to about €575 million. The association also said Italy still held a 30% share of world exports in the sector in 2024, including 52% of global tannery machinery exports and 35% of leather goods machinery exports, giving the downturn outsize importance for makers and buyers across the supply chain.
Rather than treating the slide as a simple demand wobble, Assomac is setting up a working group with representatives from tanning, leathergoods and footwear. The group is meant to be a stable forum for dialogue, helping companies develop shared strategies and present a more unified voice to national and European institutions. In its 2025 sector report, the association already framed its work around thematic groups covering institutional relations, technology development and promotional activity, and that structure now looks like a response to a pipeline under strain.
The message from Mauro Bergozza is equally direct. Assomac’s president, who succeeded Maria Vittoria Brustia in November 2024, has tied the sector’s recovery to digitisation, automation, sustainability and Industry 5.0, and he summed up the logic bluntly: “no Made in Italy without a supply chain, no supply chain without manufacturing and no manufacturing without technology.” For leatherworkers, that matters because machinery changes cutting consistency, finishing quality and cost pressure across the whole bench-to-boot chain. Assomac’s new forum is meant to keep those connections intact while the market is still soft, so weaker revenues do not become a weaker machinery pipeline.
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