Cactus Vegan Leather
Here is the story of two amazing individuals that created an incredible product. Leather is an $80 billion industry, but uses animals and hard toxins to achieve its full potential. This myth that we need to use real leather to achieve high quality, durable products is proven to be false with the creation of this chic alternative. Are you ready for it? CACTUS LEATHER! Yes, I said it.. cactus leather. This eco-friendly alternative has literally blown my mind. Check out this story of the amazing journey of two extrodinary men and their revolution.
ADRIANO DI MARTI SA DE CV is a company founded in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, by Lic. Adrián López Arriaga López Velarde from Aguascalientes, Ags. and Lic. Marte Arturo Cázarez Duarte, originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa, who met in Taipei, Taiwan in 2011 when Adrián was pursuing his higher studies at Tamkang University Lanyang Campus his degree in Politics and Global Economy and Marte the Mandarin Chinese language in Fu-Jen University who later, after one year, returned to the city of Guadalajara to study at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores Tecnológico de Monterrey for a degree in International Business. They both went through a year of cultural exchange through the Rotary Club in Taiwan before meeting in different years. Adrián from 2008 to 2009 in Nantou, Shuei-li and Marte province from 2009 to 2010 in the capital city. They were both born on the same day, month and year.
At the end of his studies, Adrián worked in the furniture industry in Taiwan for three years and Marte in the fashion industry in Mexico for 3 years. Adrián decided to return to Mexico seeking to return to his roots, where he found the opportunity to serve for a Taiwanese group in the Automotive Industry in Zapopan, Jalisco as an interpreter of Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish while Marte was still working in the fashion industry in Guadalajara . Both, living practically in the same city, coexisted again and that was where the brainstorming began that today is crystallized in the founding of ADRIANO DI MARTI SA DE CV and in the successful development of the first vegan leather made in México (DESSERTO) which is highly sustainable, made from cactus and whose quality allows it to be an attractive alternative for industries such as leather goods, footwear, automotive and aeronautics.
The idea of creating a highly sustainable material but at the same time complying with the standards demanded by these industries was born after corroborating, based on their previous work experience, the urgent need to offer a material whose environmental footprint was less than that which today. They have the different inputs of materials such as animal leather and synthetic skins. During the brainstorming, it was necessary to look for a raw material of organic origin which was viable to supply the great demands demanded by these industries, which did not require a great use of water or energy to obtain it and whose cultivation was abundant, free of pesticides and little care, for this reason it was decided to use the nopal, which meets all the characteristics that were sought and that as if that were not enough is a national symbol of Mexico and a plant whose presence extends throughout the world.
They were two years of intense research and development and with our own resources to successfully integrate, without compromising the aesthetic, physical, technical and mechanical characteristics of the material, the synthetic and organic chemical matter in a harmonious way that achieved a high quality material. sustainable which today we know as Desserto.
https://desserto.com.mx