Industry en route to Shanghai
27/08/2015
Running from August 31 to September 2 – earlier dates than normal due to a public holiday in China – organisers are expecting more than 22,000 visitors.
Innovations or new products on display will include:
• new fatliquors and softening agents from Trumpler, which will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Chinese division at the show
• new offerings from BASF that includes products that can help tanners “lower carbon and toxicity footprint”, as well as reduce water and energy use
• a new collection of cationic fat-polymers from Stahl
• a guide to minimising VOC (volatile organic compounds) and another on avoiding chrome VI formation in leather from Lanxess
• more details on a new UK-based International Centre for Leather, run by Northampton’s Institute for Creative Leather Technologies, the Leather Conservation Centre and the International Museum of Leathercraft
• a new all-rounder product”, Magnopal IPR, from TFL
• “an organic formaldehyde scavenger” from GSC
• stuffing oils and waxes for the wet end from Tannin Corp, and
• various new products from Zschimmer & Schwarz.
The topic of the Leather Forum, on August 30, is ‘Does supply and demand still matter?’
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