Since 1991 · A specialist solutions house

Where fashion is imagined,
and where it is made.

Specialist materials for footwear and leather-goods factories — adhesives, reinforcements, soles, zippers and export protection. Engineered, stocked and supported in India since 1991.

See the twelve solutions → Tell us what you're making
Visualize · Craft · Enable · From Gurgaon to Milan
35yrs
Continuously engineering since 1991
1,000+
Factories running our solutions
12
Engineered solution lines
5
Offices on India's manufacturing belts
— The Bench —

A specialist's bench.

For thirty-five years, Indian footwear and leather-goods makers have brought us the production problems Indian retail can't solve — sole compounds that hold over years of wear, shankboards that don't break in safety footwear, sock-gluing without solvents, thermo systems that bond cleanly at line speed. We engineer the answer, then we keep it running on your floor.

We are not a marketplace, not a broker, not a catalogue. We are a small specialist team that builds a complete production solution around each problem we take on — the right chemistry, the right machine, installed on your line, supported by the same person who specified it. Twelve solution lines. One team. The same person at the other end of every call.

— What we sell is the answer.
The chemistry, the machine, and the person who keeps it running.

Four pillars,
twelve solutions.

Every problem we solve sits in one of four places — inside the product, reinforcing it, on it, or around it. Choose by where you are in the construction.

Merckens shankboard insoles — the structure inside the shoeIWe CraftInside the product

We craft.

Hidden structure, cleaner chemistry.

The structural layer no customer sees — engineered to hold shape over years of wear, with chemistry your line can run in a single shift.

Water-based adhesives — Intercom Shankboard — Merckens Toe puffs & counters — Morel Thermo adhesives — ALC Sock gluing — Kyotex
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RIMCore reinforcement boards for leather goodsIIWe ReinforceFeatured

We reinforce.

What separates a $40 bag from a $400 one.

The complete reinforcement system for premium leather goods — composition leathers from 0.35–1.0 mm, microfibre suede, forty-plus tape specs. Engineered, indexed and stocked locally so your designer can specify by name.

Rimcore reinforcements hub Trinity reinforcements — 50+ specs RFID protection — ID Shield
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Davos finished rubber solesIIIWe DesignOn the product

We design.

Visible craft. Specified, engineered.

The components designers see and customers touch — Italian rubber for soles, narrow elastics, ribbons and the closure that defines a brand on the shelf.

Rubber sheets for soles — Davos Elastics & ribbons — Rifra Nastri Zippers — MAM Skicorp
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Enshield anti-mould and anti-moisture protection for exportsIVWe ProtectAround the product

We protect.

Survives the container.

Mould, moisture, theft. Engineered protection that travels with your goods from factory door to retail shelf — through monsoon, container, and customs.

Anti-mould & desiccants — Enshield
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S · P · E · C · I · A · L · I · S · T · S

The benches behind our solutions.

Each one a specialist in a single craft — chosen for what they make better than anyone else.

Intercom water-based bonding — bag production, Florence IntercomFlorence, Italy
We Craft · Water-Based Adhesives

Italy's Water-Based
Bonding System.

Engine: Intercom · Ecostick®

The Ecostick® + Intercom® system: 23 water-based adhesives and the spray machines calibrated for them, engineered together in Florence since 1991.

Solvent-free, non-allergenic, non-flammable — the bonding system European high-end production already runs as standard. One formulation for every material pairing, from leather folding to sole-to-upper attachment, with the machine and the adhesive guaranteed as one system.

— What we supply —
Ecostick® adhesives · 23 SKUs · manual spray benches · Polifemo 4.0 automatics · installation, training & service.
View solution → intercomsas.it ↗
Kyotex sock-gluing in Italian footwear manufacture Kyotex · ALCItaly
We Craft · Sock-Gluing System

The Sock-Gluing
Answer.

Engine: Kyotex / ALC

The solvent-free sock-gluing answer for strobel construction. KYO 100, 101, 500 and B20 — installed and trained on lines from Porto to Agra.

Where the rest of the trade still stocks contact glue, Kyotex builds the machine and the tape together — heat-activated thermoplastic adhesive applied at the strobel stage, no fumes, no ageing pots, gram-perfect dose every cycle.

— What we supply —
Kyotex machines · self-adhesive tapes · ALC adhesive systems · application machines · spare parts & service.
View solution → kyotexthermo.com ↗
RIMCore leather-goods reinforcement boards RimcoreItaly & India
We Reinforce · Featured

The Complete
Reinforcement System.

Engine: Rimcore

A hub of ten specialist sub-brands — the structural layer behind a $400 handbag.

Fibpo, Hidex, Kiemlon, Microfibre suede, Soft Reinforcement, Turkotex and Non-Woven Hidex/Fibpo 5603, plus composition leather boards from 0.35 to 1.0 mm. The complete reinforcement system, one address, every European norm covered.

— What we supply —
Full reinforcement system — sheets, boards, microfibre suede, composition leather (0.35–1.0 mm).
View solution → leathergoodsreinforcements.com ↗
Davos Thunit rubber sheets for soles DavosItaly
We Design · Rubber Sheets for Soles

Italian Rubber
for Soles.

Engine: Davos

The Italian way with rubber — the same compound that runs under the soles of Italy's heritage shoemakers.

Avana Base, Arpi Super, microcellular and profiled grades, plus the decorative Graf, Rugose and Brush-Off finishes. Five base colours, every density a designer asks for, sheets cut to factory press size.

— What we supply —
Avana · Arpi Super · Black/Brown/Beige/Ivory base · microcellular · profiled · Graf · Rugose · Brush Off · heel sheets.
View solution → davos.it ↗
— Independently certified, across the bench —
ISO 9001:2015· TÜV· FIPS 201· REACH· SATRA

Certification documents supplied with every shipment, on request.

The full solution stack.

Twelve solutions. One team that ties them together on your factory floor.

Intercom
Italy · India
Merckens
Austria
Morel
Italy
ALC
Italy
Kyotex
Italy · ALC
Rimcore
Italy · India
Trinity
India
Davos
Italy
Rifra Nastri
Italy
MAM
China
Enshield
India
ID Shield
India

Engineered for the
industries we serve.

Footwear and safety shoes, leather goods, small leather goods and hard goods, and the specialist leather industries that supply the world from India.

Footwear
Manufacturing.

Sock gluing, toe puffs, shankboard, rubber soles, thermo adhesives — every layer of a constructed shoe.

12 product lines

Leather
Goods.

Reinforcements, microfibre suede, composition leathers, zippers, RFID liners — for handbags, wallets, small leather goods.

10+ specs

Fashion
Accessories.

Elastics, woven ribbons, webbing, decorative tapes, custom jacquards — for apparel, belts, straps, trims.

Italian narrow fabrics

Specialist
Leather.

Boxing gloves, leather hard goods, sports and industrial leather — reinforcements, adhesives and protection for the leather industries beyond shoes and bags.

Hard goods & sports

From the first sample swatch to the next twenty containers, the rhythm is the same — and it has not changed in thirty-five years.

i.

We specify.

We start with the production problem, not the catalogue. Right chemistry, right machine, right reinforcement spec — chosen for your construction, not pulled from a shelf.

On the brief
ii.

We prove.

Free swatch and data pack within five working days. Working sample on your line — a technical specialist alongside it, not on call.

On the line
iii.

We integrate.

Shipping, customs and inland transport handled. The system arrives at your line ready to commission, not a pallet to figure out.

On the floor
iv.

We stay.

On-site application support across our offices. Spare parts, troubleshooting, operator training — the same person who specified it takes the call.

On the call
— The Method —

Specify. Prove.
Integrate. Stay.

Four steps. The same person at the other end of every one.

— Talk to us —

Tell us what you
are making.

Send a sketch, a photograph, or a CAD. The closest of our five offices will respond within one working day with a working solution and a price.

Send us your brief →