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Abigail Clare
Feb 12, 20217 min read
Waste Reduction in the Leather Industry 2/3 – Utilising Leather Solid Wastes in Other Industries:
By A. Clare Approximately 6.5 million tons of wet-salted hides/skins are processed worldwide every year. For every ton of raw material,...
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Abigail Clare
Jan 22, 20214 min read
Waste Reduction in the Leather Industry 1/3 - By-products and their Potential Application in Leather
By A. Clare The term ‘by-product’ forms the core of the leather industry – the hides/skins from which leather is made are, economically,...
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Abigail Clare
Jan 8, 20214 min read
Degradation of Vegetable-tanned Leathers Part 2: - The Marine Environment:
By A. Clare Degradation of Vegetable-tanned Leathers Part 2: - The Marine Environment: The application of vegtans in leather making is...
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Abigail Clare
Dec 18, 20205 min read
Degradation of Vegetable-tanned Leathers - Part 1
By A. Clare Vegetable tanning agents (vegtans) were used for thousands of years until 1885 when the discovery of the versatile nature of...
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Abigail Clare
Nov 23, 20204 min read
“Vegan” leather and the marine environment.
“Vegan” leather and the marine environment: By A. Clare Since the rise in veganism, the demand for a vegan leather material has...
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Eleanor Dring
Nov 20, 20203 min read
The heart of leather biodegradability – Part 4 of 4
In Part 4 of the Heart of Leather Biodegradability, we looked how measures to manage bacteria and fungi in tanning processes can be used...
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Eleanor Dring
Oct 23, 20204 min read
The heart of leather biodegradability – Part 3 of 4
In Part 3 of the Heart of Leather Biodegradability we looked at the challenges that bacteria and fungi present in the tanning...
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Eleanor Dring
Oct 15, 20203 min read
The heart of leather biodegradability – Part 2 of 4
In Part 1 of The Heart of Leather Biodegradability, we looked at the role that bacteria and fungi play in biodegradability and introduced...
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Eleanor Dring
Oct 9, 20203 min read
The heart of leather biodegradability - Part 1 of 4
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...
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H. Procter
Apr 1, 20194 min read
How do you spell sulfur?
Many of the words in English come from Greek, Latin, or Anglo-Saxon origins. Etymologists make it their livelihood to study and...
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H. Procter
Mar 28, 20195 min read
Leather Colour Variation
What, would you say, might be one of the most common causes of disagreement between tanners and manufacturers in the buying and selling...
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Karl
Mar 28, 20196 min read
Chromium-free leather choices
It has long been the wish of leather product manufacturers and the leather industry, to be able to consistently produce leathers that do...
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Inge
Mar 13, 20195 min read
Is going vegan the best way to save the planet?
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...
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H. Procter
Mar 11, 20195 min read
The Restricted Chlorophenols
The International Agency for the Research of Cancer (IARC) is a powerful body that passes judgements on the nature of hazards posed to...
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H. Procter
Mar 11, 20194 min read
Chitosan Finishing
The next area of leather finish materials is advanced in development. The traditional coating materials for leather have included:...
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H. Procter
Mar 11, 20195 min read
Can spectrophotometry help you?
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...
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H. Procter
Mar 11, 20194 min read
Biodegradable Finishes
Rapid development is taking place in the mainstream leather-making processes to ensure that the future of processing will be two-tiered....
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H. Procter
Jan 29, 20195 min read
Ostrich Skin Structure
There is no doubt that the success of the marketing story of kangaroo lay in that kangaroo had unique strength and structural...
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Karl
Jan 28, 20195 min read
The road to doctorate
One of the most misunderstood concepts in the field of leather education is the difference between educational level and depth. Tanners...
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Karl
Nov 21, 20187 min read
The pH of Leather
Acid and alkaline. Alkaline and acid. Two words commonly used in our vocabulary. Some of the products used daily have different levels of...
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