New Zealand team offers “new insights into chrome tanning”
13/06/2018
He told delegates at the 2018 Freiberg Leather Days conference in Germany that this technique has allowed the New Zealand team to examine closely the X-ray pattern of collagen when treated with different tanning agents, and said this have given them a large volume of information and “ideas on how we can improve tanning”.
“Our findings suggest that you require very little chrome to achieve the cross-linking that you need,” Dr Prabakar said. “If you add more chrome, you don’t affect the collagen structure any more. The shrinkage temperature goes up, but why are we fixated with the shrinkage temperature?”
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