Product/Process: Process for upgrading lower leather ends through seal and sink finishing.

Application/Use: Quality upgradation in rural tanned and substandard leathers.

Salient Features of Process/Technology

It is a current cynosure, which masks defects on low grade leather, provides regulated anitque and special seal and sink effect. Low grade leathers are tanned and made into crust leathers. The seal sink effect is given through application of a special paste. The leathers are dyed selectively creating a design by spray finishing.

Status of Commercialisation: Commercialised.

Equipment and Machinery: Usual tannery equipment.

Raw Materials: Crust leathers from sheep, goat, cow and buffalo skins.

For further information. please contact:

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