The Codina Group is marking 40 years since it began operating in Brazil in 1978, when it leased a tannery in Juazeiro, Bahia. It acquired a second facility in Parnaíba, Piauí, in 1985, renaming it Curtume Cobrasil Ltda.

The company was originally established in Vic (Barcelona), Spain, in 1941 by Joan Codina Deordal. In the 1970s, it began importing Brazilian hides. After Brazil introduced a ban on raw hide exports in the late 1970s, Codina moved to establish production in the country.

It initially operated as a beamhouse, exporting wet blue to Spain and other European tanneries but by the late 2000s, all production had been moved to Brazil. The Parnaíba plant currently processes around 8,000 skins per day and employs about 150 people.

The Codina Group specialises in the tanning of lamb and hair sheep skins. It expanded with a plant in Novo Hamburgo in 2009 and one in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, in 2019.