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Nigeria leather factory, 4 workers drown evacuating waste
Four workers at the Kano Tans Leather Factory in Nigeria’s north drowned while removing industrial waste in the company’s sewage…
Cartigliano at IILF
Since more than 53 years Cartigliano studies, designs and manufactures Systems for the fundamental passage of the leather from wet to dry stage.
LAMEBO s.r.l.
Lamebo Company is the leading Italian producer of splitting band knives, used in different fields of leather
BERGI SPA Bertech Stacker
As many people already know, Bertech is Bergi’s branch dedicated to automation.
This article introduces a Bertech stacker, equipped with cutting machine to cut the leathers along the backbone and a conveyor for the leathers’ selection, to work in line with a wet blue press.
Poliser and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products join forces
Poliser, a division of the Flokser Group, is using DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products’ Susterra 1.3-propanediol (PDO) as a bio-based foundation for its new synthetic leather fabric.
Feather leather
University of Delaware ‘green’ chemist Richard Wool is pursuing a method to create a new kind of breathable leather from chicken feathers, flax and soybean oil
Visit Atlas Refinery at IILF – Fatliquors and Pull-Up Oils
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Travelling Chinese shoppers buying leather goods will boost sales growth in 2014
According to luxury group Salvatore Ferragamo chief executive Michele Norsa, travelling Chinese shoppers buying leather goods will boost sales growth in 2014. Norsa said the group met expectations at the close of 2013, but that it was imperative to wait until Chinese new year on January 31 to make forecasts for the year.