The tannery cluster is in the centre of the Tuscany, and ranges for 233 Km2. The cluster includes the following municipalities: Bientina, Castelfranco di Sotto, Montopoli Valdarno, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Santa Maria a Monte e San Miniato in Pisa’s province and Fucecchio in the province of Florence.
The productive centre of the cluster is the town of Santa Croce sull’Arno, where are located the most part of the companies of the sector, split between tannery and contract works.
There are 962 enterprises employing 7.675.
In the tannery cluster there are lots of places with environmental and landscape merit such as protected areas, river areas but also two large waste water treatment plants and a modern tanning technological and research centre, to test new materials and eco-friendlier substances
categoria: Tannery district of Santa Croce sull’Arno