Introduction

The shark skin leather is used for making high quality ladies hand bags, shoes, belts and other exotic articles.

Environmental Considerations: Process causes minimum pollution and no additional measures over and above the usual safeguards are necessary.

Marketing of the Manufactured Products: Marketing should be done by the licensee.

List of Machinery/Equipment: Usual medium scale tannery equipment

• Leather goods, leather, leather industry
  
• Immediate curing after removing the skins from sharks.
  
• Liming (mild)
  
• Treatment with special chemicals to remove the dentricles.
  
• Mechanical removal of the residual dentricles.
  
• Tanning
  
• Dyeing and fatliquoring
  
• Finishing

Production Capacity: 2 pieces per batch

Stage of Development: Pilot plant

Raw material: Shark skins

Transfer Forms: Know-how,Training,Consultancy

Main Application:Textile

Contact

Technology Bureau for Small Enterprises
APCTT Building, Qutub Institutional Area
P.O. Box – 4575
New Delhi – 110016, India