CORRECTION: This story was updated on May 29, 2015, to clarify the form of chromium used in leather processing. Turning animal hides into the supple, rich-hued leather in shoes, handbags, coats ...

ON A RECENT VACATION in Morocco, my husband and I watched one of the oldest chemical processes in action: the conversion of animal hides into leather by a process that was already well-developed ...

Not-for-profit industry membership organisation Leather Naturally has released a comprehensive guide to life cycle assessments (LCAs) within the leather industry.

Leather processing is a water-intensive process and many tanneries face water scarcity. In addition to this, it needs continuous energy for heating and cooling purposes.

A new 'greener' and cleaner chemical process could revolutionize the leather-tanning industry, according to a new report. 'Reverse' leather tanning, which essentially works backward from the point ...

Environment-friendly bio-processing of hides and skin to leather using enzymes in the pre-tanning process, a technology that can make India a world leader, is nearing commercialisation.

SIALKOT: At least 150 split leather processing industrial units out of total 260 units have been closed in Sialkot due to shortage of wet blue split leather coupled with a decline of $40 million ...

Oriental leather finishers informed that they had closed their six processing units. The state government had asked the tanneries and other industries situated on the bank of river Ganges to check ...