Why Smit & zoon is publishing a new edition of its Product Passport
21/06/2018
The company is preparing to release this second edition of the information booklet at the All China Leather Exhibition in Shanghai (August 29-31). It launched the first edition in 2017, saying it wanted to help tanneries choose their chemicals wisely, reduce their environmental footprint and save costs. It has had to reprint it because all the copies it published in the initial print-run have gone.
“There was clearly a real need for that information,” said Smit & zoon strategic leather specialist, Dirick von Behr, in a recent conversation with leatherbiz, “because there is a need for a higher exhaustion of leather chemicals and we need need to be open about it.”
He explained, though, that the second edition of the Product Passport will be more than a repitition of the first. There will be information on a wider range of products this time because the company has now been able to include data it did not receive in time for the 2017 edition.
“Taking all the measurements we needed was a lengthy process,” Dirick von Behr said, “because we wanted to test all our products for their fastness. We did that many years ago and the values are still okay, but we realised we could not be sure tanners were still using the same recipes or the same wet blue, so we decided to repeat the tests. Not all the results came back in time for the first edition of the Product Passport, but this second edition has a wider selection.”
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