A3 Leather Innovation Center
Talent and innovation serving leather
Experimental tanning plant services
The A3 Leather Innovation Center has an experimental tanning plant, fully equipped with the machinery needed to carry out the entire tanning process.
Laboratory analysis quality assurance
The laboratory for chemical, physics, and soundness tests follows internal quality control based on regulation UNE-EN ISO / IEC 17025 Quality Management System in accordance with regulation UNE-EN ISO 9001: 2015 (AENOR).
Certifications and accreditations
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30
professionals including research staff, academic faculty with doctorates, doctoral candidates, and grant holders -
5.000
actions in a single year for more than 150 companies in a wide variety of sectors -
9.000m2
of facilities with a laboratory area and a fully equipped leather pilot plant
Our partners
The A3 Center collaborates with businesses and institutions that make its research possible.
Our projects
In the last few years, A3 has worked on dozens of projects that add value to the leather sector.
Our facilities
Specialized laboratories, pilot plants for tanning, independent bays, machinery; the facilities at the A3 Center are comprehensive and complete.
Our team
Made up of roughly thirty people, amongst them researchers, doctors, doctoral students, and interns.
Talent + research = innovation
The A3 Leather Innovation Center is a research group at the University of Lleida (UdL), that specializes in the leather production chain.