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  • Tanning with iron salts - an old system in a new light*
    Published:  28 March, 2004

    Driven by the 'Altautoverordnung' that regulates the recycling of old cars in Germany, the automotive industry increasingly requests their leather interiors be made from chrome-free tanned leathers. But today's most common replacements, aluminum salts and glutardialdehyde, have their own ecotoxicological problems. By Dr Martin Kleban, Bayer AG.

  • Pinning hopes on bullfrogs
    Randolph G Altarejos looks at the ways modern tanning techniques have been initiated by experts at the Animal Products Development Centre in Marulas, Valenzuela City, Philippines, and applied to bullfrog skins
    Published:  28 March, 2004

    Tanning bullfrog skins could prove to be an alternative source of raw materials for making leathergoods and footwear products in the Phillipines. Leather experts in the country have succeeded in enhancing technology which they intend sharing with those interested in making it a business.

  • Making a superior tannery felt
    High performance tannery felt makers, Huyck, have recently linked up with an Italian company with a known track record in the leather industry. They now intend to use the new co-operation to increase their profile in the leather sector. Martin Ricker reports
    Published:  28 March, 2004

    Felts are used in a range tannery machines in both the wet-end and finishing. Huyck have been involved in the business for the past 30 years but have recently decided to increase their presence in the tanning sector. They have teamed-up with bService, an Italian company that have a long association of providing components such as felts to the international leather industry. The new co-operation will see bService cover a number of European, South East Asian and Latin American markets on behalf of Huyck.

  • EU footwear standards
    Published:  28 March, 2004

    A joint initiative between European standards organisation CEN and International Standards Organisation ISO, new standards for safety footwear for sale throughout the EU have been confirmed. They incorporate changes to Europe's original footwear standards, now twelve years old, to better reflect new manufacturing methods and testing procedures.

  • Elimination of salt from pickling
    Laboratory and industrial trials in Italy have shown that salt free pickling can be achieved. G Manzo and G Maffei from Stazione Sperimentale delle Industria delle Pelli e Materie Concianti - Naples, explain their findings. This paper is based on the presentation given by Dr Manzo at the XXVII IULTCS congress held in Cancun, in May 2003
    Published:  28 March, 2004

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  • Drinking water from tannery discharge
    The tanning cluster around the town of Lorca in southern Spain is the location for the world's first Membrane Bioreactor and Reverse Osmosis treatment unit. The plant caters for a group of 25 tanneries and offers complete removal of salts and pollutants from tannery wastewater. Dr Wolfram Scholz, BLC Leather Technology Centre, discusses how drinking quality water may be obtained from tannery effluent using the new technology
    Published:  28 March, 2004

    BLC have just completed a landmark project to design and commission the world's first Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) treatment plant, which can process tannery effluent to desalination levels.

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Poll

Where from the following options do you see the leather making industry most likely heading in 10 years time?

  • Leather making will continue to be dominated by China and India - led by consumer demand?
  • Pressure from the environment 'hide miles' will mean that tanning/finishing reverts back to source?
  • Countries such as Brazil and the US etc with large raw material populations will control the market?
  • African nations will get their act together and will become the new centre of leather making?
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