Product/Process: Production of finished leather from wet blue chrome.

Application/Use: Making various leather products e.g. footwear, leather garments and leather goods by small scale tanners.

Salient Features of Process/Technology

The process involves shaving to required thickness, post tanning wet operations like neutralisation, re-tanning, dyeing and fatliquoring, sammying, setting, drying & conditioning, staking, buffing, dusting and finishing. It requires 40 KL water and 450 KWH power/day.

Status of Commercialisation: Commercialised.

Minimum Economic Unit Size: 250 sq m/day

Indicative investment: Rs.50 lakhs

Equipment and Machinery

Shaving machine, drum, sammying machine, setting machine, staking machine, drying chamber, buffing machine, hydraulic press, spray booth etc.

Raw Materials: Wet blue

For further information. please contact:

The Director,
Central Leather Research
Institute (CLRI), Adyar,
Chennai-600020