What Do You Need To Know About Leather Tanning?




Indeed making leather consumes time, effort and good quality of leather finishing chemicals, helping the best leather to reach your home. However when it comes to fathoming the tanning process, then you must not forget that leather is split across its thickness to produce a top layer and the under layer.   

The very process of tanning requires five stages:

·         Pre-Tanning
·         Tanning
·         Selecting
·         Dressing
·         Finishing

Let’s take a quick look at the leather tanning process in this post…

Step 1: Pre-Tanning
·         Soaking- Here leather is soaked to remove salt, used in preserving leather.
·         Liming - Hair, and epidermis are removed and a the solution of leather processing chemicals, like lime and sodium sulfide, is applied to make the hide turn into soft.
·         Splitting- Now hide is split into layers; the top layer is used for producing smooth grain leather & bottom is used for suede.

Step 2: Tanning
In this process, the pre-tanned hide is converted into leather, wherein mineral tanning is done with alkaline chrome-3 salts. However, the other tanning methods are:
·         Pure Vegetable Tanning
·         Synthetic Tanning
·         Oil Tanning
·         Combination Tanning

Step 3: Selecting
Once tanning is done excess water is removed, and the hides are then graded according to the quantity and locations of natural features and flaws.

Step 4: Dressing
This process requires the following steps:
·         Shaving- Hides get a uniform thickness.
·         Dyeing – To add colors, dyes are used.
·         Re-tanning – Some additional leather tanning chemicals are added to make the leather fit the need.
·         Setting – Here creases & excess water is removed
·         Drying – Now hides are stretched dried on large frames or vacuum dried.
·         Trimming- Removing of rough and ragged edges are removed.

Step 5: Finishing
In this step, Leather Finishing agents are used to enhance the natural beauty of the leather product. It ensures and locks the required gloss, gives a more protective surface and gives an antique look.
At Haryana Leather Chemicals- one of the leading leather chemicals manufacturers in India, we ensure to prepare and finish the hide to improve durability, performance, and fastness, eliminate imperfections, meet texture requirements, and adjust the flexibility of the hide.
We are chosen partners for various businesses expanding in 25 countries in the Far East, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

If you are looking for best chemicals for leather industry, then you must reach us at:
1405 B, Signature Towers, South City I, Gurgaon – 122001, Haryana, India

+91-124-2739000
info@leatherchem.com
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