Our professional grades allows you, if you satisfy the requirements (see Criteria for Professional Grade award), to add post-nominal qualification letters to your name. These designations are recognised throughout the leather industry and can be added these to your curriculum vitae, to demonstrate your standing and experience. 

A Certificate is awarded to all successful recipients of a professional grade, and these are usually presented at the SLTC Annual Conference.

There are three levels of Professional Grade for which members of the SLTC are encouraged to apply: 

• Licentiate (LSLTC)
• Associate (ASLTC)
• Fellow (FSLTC

All applicants must be over eighteen years old and the SLTC Council will review each application. The awarding of a Professional Grade will depend on academic publications, industrial experience and length of continual membership of the Society. It is expected that qualified leather technologists, technicians, scientists and management generalists working within the leather industry will apply for a Professional Grade. 

The Society also wishes to encourage newly qualified students or more experienced members, who may not be directly working in a technical role or scientific discipline, to apply. 

The decision of Council is final and binding and there is no obligation to give grounds for a decision. Anyone applying for Professional Grading must be a fully paid-up member of the SLTC.