Tannery overcomes flooding to host COTANCE visit
11/12/2015
Leather industry body COTANCE hosted the fourth in its series of seminars on the future of the European leather industry in Glasgow on December 9. SLG said the group was welcome to visit its Bridge of Weir facilities on the following day.
After storms hit Scotland the previous weekend, though, the Bridge of Weir site suffered flooding and had to interrupt production, at a busy time of year, to clear up. Power outages caused by the floods made the task even more challenging.
Nevertheless, more than 30 delegates were able to tour the group’s NCT and Bridge of Weir tanneries, the automotive leather cutting plant, the wastewater treatment plant and the successful thermal energy plant SLG has been running at the site since 2010.
Using sludge from the on-site wastewater treatment plant, the thermal energy facility generates steam for use in production. It also produces oil for biodiesel from fleshings. The thermal energy plant is a key component of SLG’s environmental strategy and of a Low Carbon Leather concept that it has been taking to market successfully for several years now.
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