By A. Clare Approximately 6.5 million tons of wet-salted hides/skins are processed worldwide every year. For every ton of raw material,...

By A. Clare The term ‘by-product’ forms the core of the leather industry – the hides/skins from which leather is made are, economically,...

By A. Clare Degradation of Vegetable-tanned Leathers Part 2: - The Marine Environment: The application of vegtans in leather making is...

By A. Clare Vegetable tanning agents (vegtans) were used for thousands of years until 1885 when the discovery of the versatile nature of...

“Vegan” leather and the marine environment: By A. Clare Since the rise in veganism, the demand for a vegan leather material has...

In Part 4 of the Heart of Leather Biodegradability, we looked how measures to manage bacteria and fungi in tanning processes can be used...

In Part 3 of the Heart of Leather Biodegradability we looked at the challenges that bacteria and fungi present in the tanning...

In Part 1 of The Heart of Leather Biodegradability, we looked at the role that bacteria and fungi play in biodegradability and introduced...

This is the first in a four-part series that takes a detailed look at the chemistry and biology of the biodegradability of leather. At...

Many of the words in English come from Greek, Latin, or Anglo-Saxon origins. Etymologists make it their livelihood to study and...

What, would you say, might be one of the most common causes of disagreement between tanners and manufacturers in the buying and selling...

It has long been the wish of leather product manufacturers and the leather industry, to be able to consistently produce leathers that do...

To eat meat, or not to eat meat: this is an immensely controversial and topical issue at the moment and linked in with both personal...

The International Agency for the Research of Cancer (IARC) is a powerful body that passes judgements on the nature of hazards posed to...

The next area of leather finish materials is advanced in development. The traditional coating materials for leather have included:...

The world of the tanner is complicated, no more so than when the roles in the tannery can only be done by a very talented few (or in some...

Rapid development is taking place in the mainstream leather-making processes to ensure that the future of processing will be two-tiered....

There is no doubt that the success of the marketing story of kangaroo lay in that kangaroo had unique strength and structural...

One of the most misunderstood concepts in the field of leather education is the difference between educational level and depth. Tanners...

Acid and alkaline. Alkaline and acid. Two words commonly used in our vocabulary. Some of the products used daily have different levels of...