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American Leather Chemists Association (ALCA)
Address : 1314 50th Street, Suite 103, Lubbock
City : Texas
State : -
Zip : 79412
Country : U.S.A.
Phone : 806.744.1798
Fax : 806.744.1785
Website : http://www.leatherchemists.org
Contact Person : The Secretray
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Association Activity : The birth of the ALCA was not a sudden phenomenon. A group of leather chemists met at the annual convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) in 1893. Their sole concern was to find an accurate method for analyzing the tanning extracts used in the industry. Extracts were often altered by traders or experimented with by tanners. Thus, commercial interests — and not purely scientific pursuits — sparked the initial banding together of leather chemists.

These chemists did devise a method of measuring the amount of tanning material absorbed by dried, ground hide. Modifications in this method were made over the next several years and interest in the problem of tannin analysis was very high. In 1897 by-laws were written and officers elected for a leather chemists’ association, but the effort died and the group continued to meet as an unofficial part of the AOAC, though few leather chemists were actually members of this larger group. By 1903 the leather chemists again felt the need for their own organization. Nine of them decided to form the ALCA on November 22 of that year.

President Kerr later summarized the early years in a letter to Dr. H. G. Turley: “The organization of the ALCA in 1903 was the outcome of a decade of sustained effort by a small group of young technological chemists to establish reliable analytical methods for determining the commercial value of all description of materials employed in the manufacture of leather, and to introduce scientific methods of tannery plant control. As late as 1895 there was practically no recognized leather trades chemistry as such in this country; only a few tanners employed chemists in their plants and most of the analytical work called for was done by general analysis in the laboratories of those dealers in chemicals or dyestuffs who had taken on representations for tanning materials. It would be difficult for the members of the ALCA today to visualize the bitter disputes and the wrangling between chemists, to say nothing of the verbal abuse heaped upon the devoted heads of the pioneers of leather chemistry in the middle and late nineties and for many years later for that matter.”

Taken from “Seventy-five Years of ALCA Meeting,” Published for the 1979 Meeting of the American Leather Chemists’ Association, Written and Edited by Scott D. Fields with Special Thanks to John J. Moynihan and The Leather Manufacturer, and Published at the Direction of the ALCA Council, William E. Dooley, President; James M. Constantin, President-Elect; William T. Roddy, Secretary-Treasurer; Councilors, Stephen M. Feairheller, Thomas E. Greene, Bruce D. Miller, John J. Moynihan, and Richard G. Waite.
 
Leather and Hides Associations in U.S.A.
Argentine Leather Industry Chemists and Technicians Association (ALICTA), -, U.S.A.
Leather Industries of America (LIA), Washington, U.S.A.
Moroccan Federation of Leather Industries (FEDIC), Casablanca, U.S.A.
United States Hide, Skin & Leather Association (USHSLA), Washington, U.S.A.
Leather and Hides Associations in World
All India Hide And Leather Tanners And Merchants Association (AISHTMA), Periamet, India
Arab Union For Leather Industries (AULI), -, Albania
Association Of Leather Producers And Exporters Of East Azarbaijan (ALPEEA), -, Azerbaijan
Association Of Slovanian Leather And Shoe Industries (ASLSI), Nám. J.herdu 1, Slovakia
Australian Hide, Skin & Leather Exporters Association (AHSLEA), Baulkham Hills, Australia
British Luggage And Leathergoods Association (BLLA), Hockley, U.K.
China Leather Industry Association (CLIA), Beijing, China
Council For Leather Export (NEW DELHI), New Delhi, India
Council For Leather Exports, Chennai, India
Council For Leather Exports (CLE), Egmore, India
Council For Leather Exports (MUMBAI), Mumbai, India
European Leather Association (CELA), Bruxelles, Belgium
Federation Of Indian Micro & Small & Medium Enterprises, New Delhi, India
German Leather Federation (GLF), Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Haining Leather Industry Association (HLIA), Haining, China
Hong Kong Hide & Leather Traders Association (HKHLTA), -, Hongkong
Indian Leather Inds., Kolkata, India
Indian Leather Products Association, Kolkata, India
Indian Leather Technologists' Association, Kolkata, India
International Council Of Hides Skins And Leather Traders Associations (ICHSLTA), Paris, France
International Textile, Garment And Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWE), Brussels, Belgium
Italian Association Of Leather Chemists (IALC), Arno, Italy
Italian Leather Manufacturers Association (AIMPES), Milano, Italy
Japan Hides Importers Association, Osaka, Japan
Japan Leather & Leather Goods Inds. Assn, Tokyo, Japan
Leather Training & Technical (LTT), Harrogate, U.K.
Leathergoods & Footwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association (LFMEA), Banani, Bangladesh
Nepal Leather Entrepreneurs Association, Kathmandu, Nepal
Nepal Leather Industry & Trade Assn., Kathmandu, Nepal
Portuguese Leather Association (APIC), Apartado, Albania
Society Of Leather Technologists And Chemists (SLTC), Telford,, U.K.
Taiwan Leather Mfg. Association, Taichung, Taiwan
The Karnataka Hides & Skins Marchants, Bangalore, India
The Real Sheepskin Association (RSA), Freehold Street, U.K.
Turkish Leather Technologists And Chemists Society (DETEK), Istanbul, Turkey
Uk Leather Federation (LF), Moulton Park, U.K.
Up Leather Industries Association, Kanpur, India
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