Hides & Skins

Since the dawn of time, the most important “by-products” derived from animal slaughtering have been hides and skins. Centravo serves as the central collection and marketing organisation for all hides and skins in Switzerland.

Swiss bovine hides and calfskin, as well as lambskins and sheepskins, have earned an excellent worldwide reputation as raw materials for the production of exceptionally high-quality leather. As a Swiss meat-processing company, Centravo has set itself the goal of optimally marketing this valuable raw material.
Each year, approximately 850,000 pieces of hides and skins with a total weight of more than 16,000 tons are prepared for processing into leather in multiple shift operations at Centravo’s modern facility, which features computerised process control systems.

More than 90% of the merchandise is exported – mainly to specialised tanneries within the European Union.

The hide and skin market is one of the few agriculture-related markets in Switzerland that is unregulated. This means that its global product marketing is subject directly to the laws of supply and demand.

«Raw materials for finely crafted leather products.»