ISA Voice: Recent Episodes
ISA Next-Gen Materials
Educational Program for the eco-friendly leather and sustainable new materials Industry
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Chief Sales Officer, together with Emily Satterthwaite, Product Line Manager, introduce our exciting new Spring / Summer 2028 line! Join them as they walk through the latest designs, colors, and trends that will define the upcoming season.
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, Senior Vice President of Sales, together with Emily Satterthwaite, Account Manager, introduce our exciting new Fall / Winter 2027 line! Join them as they walk through the latest designs, colors, and trends that will define the upcoming season.
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In this episode, Wendy Su, our Vice President of the TrimTec Division, introduces the dedicated division focused on producing sustainable labels and trims.
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales, is joined by Tiago Horn, our COO, to share key moments that have shaped our history along the way.
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For this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales, introdces the segment where we have been making progress over the past couple of years - ISA Luxury leather.
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales and Emily Satterthwaite, our Account Manager also in charge of color & trend direction, together bring you the new Spring / Summer 2027 line!
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For this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales is joined by Dr. Reiner Hengstmann, our VP of Additional Materials to introduce our COSM™ Business Unit and product offerings.
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For this episode, Gordon Wemmitt, our Director of US Sales, will take a deep dive into the world of athletic leather and explore its unique and often forgotten benefits!
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales and Emily Satterthwaite, our Account Manager also in charge of color & trend direction, together bring you the new Spring / Summer 2026 line!
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In this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales and Emily Satterthwaite, our Account Manager also in charge of color & trend direction, together bring you the new Fall / Winter 2025 line!
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ln this episode, Matt Feuer, our Senior Sales Executive, who has been in the leather industry for almost 35 years and has worked at ISA since 2003, along with Carl Flach, the Senior Director of Operational Strategies, to walk our customers through the commitments the company has made toward global compliance requirements.
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Adam Simon, our U.S. Sales Director for Auburn Leather, the leather lace division of ISA TanTec, will be reviewing Auburn’s genuine, sustainable leather lace collection along with some
helpful tools to select a leather lace that fits your style!
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Continuing the regenerative agriculture topic on the third episode of “ISA Voice”, our host, Keith Hill shares his firsthand experience of visiting a regenerative agricultural practice ranch owned by Savory. From a practical perspective, Keith highlights the challenges and opportunities of regenerative cattle and leather supply chains.
ISA releases the tenth episode of its “ISA Voice” podcast
series discussing the current state of Next-Gen materials for apparel and
footwear as well as ISA’s Next-Gen material HyphaLiteTM TC. It also
sums up key takeaway points from the recent 2022 Material Innovation Conference
“Advancing Next-Gen Materials”, where ISA was one of the event partners. Highlights
include Next-Gen materials supply chain adaptation, performance, future
development, and concerns.
For this episode, Ronda de Bie, our Senior Vice President of Sales,
introduces our new Spring/Summer 2024 Seasonal Collection.
The focus of this episode is on a controversial topic in the leather industry: the carbon footprint of leather. The tanning industry has transformed from an environmentally hostile business to a sustainable eco-friendly industry over the decades, however, the industry’s efforts and improvements have not been properly conveyed or recognized by the general public and is the subject of negative publicity on a regular basis.
We depict the evolution and controversy about greenhouse gas emissions from cattle and highlight the way natural materials like leather can play an active role in limiting climate impacts.
This podcast gives an overview of the group’s sustainable waste management and its 2022 sustainability initiatives, all are inspired and motivated by the group’s already recognized Low Impact To the Environment (LITE) concept.
In this podcast, we try to explain the SAC Higg Index and how leather is scored in the Higg Materials Sustainability Index.
As the demand for non-animal-based materials in the fashion and footwear market increases, products such as so-called vegan-based leather imitations are booming. However, many of those products are advertised as environmentally friendly while containing a large percentage of plastic, one of the biggest threats to our ecosystem.
Along with the recent launch of HyphaLite™, ISA’s first sustainable material featuring more than 90% bio-based content, the host of ISA Voice, Keith, is taking the opportunity to disclose the use of plastics within the leather imitations segment and the environmental concerns it causes in the latest podcast and reveals ISA’s motivation behind the commitment to creating sustainable material alternatives.
Our previous “ISA Voice” podcasts have drawn the spotlight on hide origin, ISA hide sourcing, animal welfare and traceability. We are ready to share with you more background information on the leather industry, particularly on the topic of vegan leather, regenerative leather, and leather recyclability. While the lines between genuine leather and synthetics have become blurred, in this episode, our host Keith breaks down questions regarding this subject with professional insights.
In this podcast, we answer questions about the origins and types of cattle hides that ISA processes and the reasons ISA purchases wet blue hides as compared to other hide types.
This podcast is about leather Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), reviewing its definition, purpose, and LCA application within the leather industry and in ISA TanTec.
In this episode, the attention has been drawn to a little-known but important topic regarding the variation amongst chrome-tanned, veg tanned, chrome-free and metal-free tannages and analyzes the differences in terms of their environmental impacts. By doing so, we would like to share some insights with our audience and assist them in making decisions when facing the overused buzzwords and phrases abused by marketers.
We developed HyphaLite™, an over 90% bio-based sustainable material that is an alternative to petro-chemical based synthetics. HyphaLite™ is fully scalable in production while meeting standards and KPIs for footwear & accessories.
Explore the backstory of HyphaLite™ with the Thomas Schneider, the Executive Chairman of ISA TanTec.
Being an industrial pioneer who implements sustainability as a corporate strategy, we recognize the importance to convey the right message of the tanning industry to the public, thus, the “ISA Voice” project was initiated to explain stereotypes and misunderstandings on tannery.
In the first podcast of “ISA Voice”, the host, Keith Hill, our Vice President Sustainable Business Development, shared his profound knowledge of the leather industry, answering questions of the hide origins, animal welfare and supply chain traceability.