Meet us at EAC Shanghai
May 28–29, 2026
Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Centre
Booth S502
Touch the leather. Smell the olive leaves. Take the story home.
触摸真皮。感受橄榄叶的清香。把故事带回家。
Olive-tanned automotive leather. In serial production since 2013 —
trusted by BMW, Porsche and Volkswagen.
Approved in automotive leather serial production.
已通过汽车皮革量产认证。
BMW. Porsche. Volkswagen. Škoda. Audi. Automobili Pininfarina.
BMW In 2013, BMW made Olivenleder® the first olive-tanned leather ever used in automotive series production — for the BMW i3. It was the car that proved luxury and environmental responsibility are not mutually exclusive. Since then, BMW has continued to use Olivenleder® across its electric range, including the iX. The courage to take that first step started an entire movement.
Pininfarina Automobili The Battista is the most powerful car ever designed and built in Italy — 1,900 hp, pure electric, limited to 150 units, starting at $2.2 million. Every single one features an interior with leather tanned using olive leaves. Pininfarina chose Olivenleder® as part of their commitment to sustainable luxury — proving that the world’s most exclusive hypercar and the world’s most responsible leather belong together. The hides are sourced close to the Cambiano factory in Italy and hand-stitched by Pininfarina’s own craftspeople.
Škoda With the Enyaq iV, Škoda brought Olivenleder® to the volume market — making sustainable leather interiors accessible, not exclusive. Around 215,000 olive leaves go into the tanning extract for a single Enyaq. Every car with the EcoSuite interior carries a small tag on the seats: „Eco Olive Leather.“
The challenge with conventional leather tanning.
传统皮革鞣制的挑战。
Most leather today is still tanned with chromium, glutaraldehyde, or synthetic reactive chemicals — substances that pose significant risks to human health and the environment. Many so-called „sustainable“ alternatives simply replace one problem with another: metals from mining, fossil-fuel-based synthetics like glutaraldehyde, or misleading plant-based claims with little actual tanning effect.
Automotive interiors deserve better. The surface your customers touch every day should be safe — not just compliant.
One ingredient: the olive tree.
种成分：橄榄树。
Olivenleder® is tanned with wet-green® OTP — a patented extract made from the leaves and prunings of Mediterranean olive trees.
No chromium. No metals. No glutaraldehyde. No synthetic reactive chemicals. 100% biobased. Fully biodegradable.
The only tanning agent in the world rated EXCELLENT by Dermatest® — a critical standard for surfaces in prolonged skin contact, such as car seats, steering wheels, and dashboards.
It delivers everything expected of premium automotive leather: consistent quality, excellent haptics, durability, and availability in any colour and finish.
A plug-in technology.
即插即用的技术。
No new infrastructure required. Olivenleder® is a plug-in technology — it works in existing tanneries worldwide, including those already established in China.
Available and scalable: the use of olive tree pruning alone covers more than 80% of global leather demand, and adding olive mill by-products makes 100% achievable. All patent-protected.
And this is how we close the loop.
这就是我们如何实现闭环。
Leather tanned with certified Silvateam and wet-green® products can be transformed into organic fertilizer — approved for organic farming.
From olive tree to car seat — and back to nature again.
橄榄鞣制真皮，从橄榄树到汽车座椅，再回归自然。
The people behind Olivenleder®.
Olivenleder® 背后的团队。
Behind every piece of Olivenleder® is a global team of leather technicians, chemists, and specialists — from Italy to China, from Argentina to Germany. Here are two of them. They are part of a network of more than 800 Silvateam professionals across five continents, ready to support your next project.
Daniele Biolo Leather Technician, Silvateam — Asia Market Coordinator
Daniele grew up in his grandfather’s tannery in Italy — on forklifts before he could walk, jumping on leather piles with his brother. He studied leather technology at Northampton University and has been with Silvateam since 2018. Today, he coordinates the leather operation between Italy and China: scouting the market, developing recipes on site, and bringing innovation directly to tanneries across Asia.
„If you start working with Silvateam, you gain innovation and a team that is going to support you throughout all the development. This is not something very common to find in the Asian market.“
Lorenzo Tribuzio Group Technical Manager, Silvateam
Lorenzo wanted to be a pilot. He couldn’t afford flight school, so he enrolled at the nearest school to home — which happened to be a leather school. A teacher convinced him by saying: „Technicians travel the world.“ He’s been with Silvateam for 25 years now.
Today, Lorenzo is the person who decides whether a new product is ready for the market. He develops recipes, coordinates technicians worldwide, and works directly in tanneries — not behind a desk. Some customers trust him so much they hand him their R&D access badge.
„I get something which is basically a discharge of the meat industry. And when I put it back, it’s something beautiful. From something useless to something amazing, long-lasting, sustainable. That’s why I love it.“
Thomas Lamparter Managing Partner, wet-green GmbH, part of Silvateam
The driving force behind Olivenleder®. Thomas comes from a family that has been in the tanning trade for ten generations. His career spans the automotive leather value chain — from Eagle Ottawa to Mercedes-AMG to Bader Leather. Today he leads wet-green, the company that developed the patented olive-tanning technology now used by BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen.