emerged as the two finalists for this region. Reports on both tanneries appeared in World Leather, February–March, 2014. Finalists for the third region, the Americas, were announced on April 24, 2014, with the two tanneries to feature being Bojos Tanning, Santiago, Dominican Republic, and JBS Couros, Itumbiara, Goiás, Brazil. Reports on these two finalists will appear in the April–May, 2014 issue of World Leather. For China, the finalists for the fourth Tannery of the Year programme were announced on July 3, 2014 as Henan Prosper, Mengzhou City, Henan Province, and Zhejiang Mingxin Automotive Leather, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. There was only one finalist for Africa: Dire Tannery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The final for the fourth programme took place in Shanghai on September 3, 2014. Regional winners were: Africa - Dire Tannery, Ethiopia; Americas - Bojos Tanning, the Dominican Republic; Asia excluding China - Saigon Tan Tec, Vietnam; China - Mingxin Leather, Zhejiang Province; and Europe - Wollsdorf Leather, Austria. Following this, the judges announced Wollsdorf Leather from Austria as the fourth winner of the Global Tannery of the Year award. World Leather magazine runs Tannery of the Year with backing from the APLF exhibition, chemical manufacturers BASF, Buckman and Lanxess, the International Council of Tanners, the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation. References Leathermaking Leather manufacturers