LIDI LEATHER INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE is a company located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The company is mainly working in Training Centers business sectors.
The Ethiopian leather industry is a relatively older industry with more than 80 years of involvement in processing leather and producing leather products. The industry bases itself on the country’s livestock resources. Indeed Ethiopia possesses one of the world largest livestock populations. This enormous population of livestock provides ample opportunity for the development of the leather industry in the country. In addition to possessing large livestock population, Ethiopian cattle hides are well known internationally for their fine grain pattern and good fiber structure and are ideal for making shoe uppers.
Correspondingly, the Ethiopian highland sheepskins have got worldwide reputation in terms of quality, thickness, flexibility, strength, compact structure and clean inner surface. It is also estimated to assume for about 70% of the national sheepskin production found to be very suitable for the production of high quality leather garments, sport gloves and has great demand - on the international leather market.