Constructing a sustainable partnership – SPOOR

Our customers can now purchase our Fredericia products furbished with 100% traceable leather. The collaboration between Fredericia and SPOOR facilitates this.

From 2021, Fredericia has offered customers the option of buying products furbished with 100% traceable leather. SPOOR is a collection of leather with 100% documented traceability, meaning you can rest assured that the leather of your choice is traceable to the exact animal whose hide was used.

The sourcing of rawhides used to produce leather and the ability to identify the animal’s origin can be challenging. However, SPOOR ensures complete transparency by sourcing rawhides directly from the abattoirs responsible for slaughtering the animals. The abattoirs collect the cattle straight from the farmers raising the animals enabling customers to gain insights into the origin of the leather and make a conscious choice.

SPOOR also provides a guarantee that the leather comes from Northern European rawhides. The Nordic origin means that the cattle have enjoyed some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world.

How SPOOR’s traceability works

1. Individual animal identification
Ear-tags must be applied to every EU cattle within the first 20 days after birth. No animal may leave its birth holding before receiving ear-tag.
2. Computerised database
Each Member State must have a national database containing ear-tags for all its cattle, all holdings on its territory and movements of the animals.
3. Passport for movement
Member States must issue an animal passport with info from the database that should accompany the animal for movements or intra-union trade.
4. A hide enriched with data
The hide is collected at the abattoir and transported to Scan-Hide in Vester Skerninge, Denmark.
5. Laser number
When the hides are tanned, each is marked with a laser number linked to the animal’s ear-tag, ensuring all the data is contained in the national database.
6. Collection of hides
The hide is delivered to the finishing tannery in Italy and processed into leather. SPOOR provides you with the traceability and enriching data you want.

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“ Respect for nature and its materials has always been central to our business. This means that it is also important to us to know the origin of the materials we use in our production. ”
Rasmus Graversen, CCO at Fredericia.

SPOOR leather

SPOOR engages the expertise of the last remaining tannery in Denmark, Scan-Hide, where the leather is tanned. It is subsequently sent to Italy, where the semi-finished hide is processed into leather.

As a by-product of the meat and dairy industry, SPOOR leather, like all our leather at Fredericia, is an example of upcycling waste material from nature.

Wegner Ox Chair in SPOOR Leather

Learn more about SPOOR

The following types of leather can be supplied with SPOOR traceability.

Omni 301 Black
Omni 307 Cognac
Omni 377 Dark brown
Max 95 Cognac
Max 98 Black

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