Mindhive

14/09/2026

Live from Fiera Milano Rho. SIMAC Tanning Tech 2026 is open, and Dion Bettjeman is on the Main Stage at 14:00 today (Hall 18) to present "Verified hide data, end to end: closing the intelligence loop from wet-blue to finished leather."

Wet-blue and finished leather have always been graded separately. One record at the start, one at the end, nothing between them.

Dion shows what changes when both stages share one record. You can trace a defect back through the process and answer what tanneries never could: was it already there, or did it appear in processing? Then you fix the real cause.

The rest of the show, we are at Stand C44, Hall 14, with Zünd. That is a different hall from the Main Stage, so leave yourself a few minutes. Come and find James Bayly, Dion and the Mindhive team for a conversation about wet-blue grading, finished leather inspection, and what it takes to connect the two, rules, data and all.

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09/09/2026

Meeting slots for SIMAC are filling. If Milan is in your plans for next week, now's the time to lock in a time with us.

We're at Stand C44, Hall 14, alongside Zünd, with Mindhive BlueSelect™ and Mindhive FinishSelect™ on video, Rules Builder on screen, and two meeting areas set aside for real conversations.

Email us and we'll confirm your slot before the show opens.

07/09/2026

One week to Milan.

At Stand C44, Hall 14, Mindhive Global and Zünd are showing how a hide's story holds together from wet-blue to finished leather. Mindhive BlueSelect™ grades it first. Mindhive FinishSelect™ checks the result at the other end. Same record, two stages, one set of rules behind both, built and deployed through Rules Builder.

James Bayly and Dion Bettjeman will be on the stand all three days. Comment or email us to book a slot.

27/08/2026

Multi-site tanneries have a consistency problem most quality systems don't solve: the same hide can get a different grade depending on which site, which shift, which grader is on the floor.

Verified hide data fixes that. One grading standard, applied the same way everywhere Mindhive BlueSelect runs, and getting sharper the longer the system operates at each site.

More on this at our stand with Zünd, Stand C44, Hall 14, SIMAC Tanning Tech, 15-17 September.

19/08/2026

A month out from Milan.

We've kept this year's SIMAC stand smaller on purpose: two screens, two meeting areas, and a straight line from Mindhive BlueSelect™ at wet-blue to Mindhive FinishSelect™ at finishing.

Plus a sneak peak into how Rules Builder lets you configure and deploy your own grading rules across sites.

If you're in Milan for SIMAC (15-17 September), find us at Stand C44, Hall 14, or drop a comment and we'll set up time.

27/07/2026

91% accuracy. 360 hides an hour. 4 seconds per decision.

Mindhive BlueSelect has been running at that standard in tanneries across nine countries. At SIMAC 2026, we're showing how that same verified data extends through to finished leather with Mindhive FinishSelect, developed with Zünd.

See it on video at C44, Pavilion 14P, and let's talk about what it means for your operation.

19/07/2026

Milan calling again. Mindhive Global is back at SIMAC Tanning Tech 2026 (15-17 September), sharing a stand with Zünd at C44, Pavilion 14P.

This year the stand is focused on two solutions, one data record. Mindhive BlueSelect at wet-blue, Mindhive FinishSelect at finishing, developed with Zünd.

Come find James Bayly and Dion Bettjeman on the stand to talk through what verified hide data looks like end to end.

22/05/2026

20 million hides graded. We had to stop and sit with that for a moment.

It's a big number, but what it really represents is thousands of decisions made faster, more accurately, and with less friction, for the people running tanneries and the teams working the lines globally, every day.

This milestone belongs to every customer who took a chance on a different way of doing things, and every person on our team who made it work.

The leather industry runs on quality. We're making sure that quality is something you can prove.

15/05/2026

A grader with 20 years on the floor carries knowledge that took a career to build. Pattern recognition that no spec sheet captures. That expertise is irreplaceable.

The problem isn't the grader. It's that their call vanishes once the hide moves on. It doesn't travel with the leather. It doesn't reach the customer. It doesn't protect the tannery when a dispute comes back.

The best operations we work with have found a way to keep that expertise and build a record around it. The grader's judgment stays. The decision becomes traceable.

We followed one hide, from a Brazilian cattle station to a Chelsea boot upper, to show exactly why that moment at the grading line determines everything.

Read it here → https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0Sbxf0

29/04/2026

Every leather product you have ever owned passed through a grading line. Most people never think about that moment. We think it's one of the most important in the whole journey.

This World Leather Day, we've published a piece that follows one hide through the leather manufacturing process - from early-stage processing through to the decision that determined what it became. We used a hide from Brazil to tell the story, but the journey is universal.

It's about craft, about the skilled work that has always underpinned this industry, and about what happens in a traditionally manual process when quality can finally be demonstrated rather than assumed.

Today the industry celebrates what leather is. We want to talk about what makes its quality possible.

Read the full story: https://ap1.hubs.ly/y0Pr-S0

Make it leather. Make it worth making.

Follow the journey of a hide from a Brazilian cattle station to a Chelsea boot upper to see why the grading decision at wet-blue is one that matters most.