As already announced in the press in June, supplier of products and services for the textile industry, DyStar, has signed an agreement to acquire the business activities of the Boehme Group. As a result, the Boehme product range for wet processes in the leather production will be extended with dyes and the well-established leather finishing range from DyStar.

At the forthcoming ACLE in Shanghai Boehme will concentrate on all specialties within beamhouse and wet-end processes, whilst DyStar will present products with the main focus on finishing and dyes.

Boehme will highlight several new products. Gelon PKN is said to be an excellent washing agent, which is free of alkylphenolic ethoxylates and can be applied in soaking, washing and degreasing of all raw skins and hides. Thanks to its strong emulsifying effects on natural fat, the product is also suitable for the degreasing of raw skins and hides with a high content of natural fat.

Cutapol GGL is a special fatliquor for all soft leather types, such as gloving and garment leathers. Besides an excellent softness and extreme stretchiness, it is said to produce light-weight leathers with a full, round and pleasant greasy touch. As a result of its special raw material components, the product has an excellent light and heat yellowing fastness and thus can be applied for the production of white gloving and garment leathers. Leathers fatted with Cutapol GGL can be dyed easily and very evenly. Cutapol RPN is a fatliquor for shoe upper leather which produces soft but tight leathers with a round, pleasant greasy hand. Leathers fatted with Cutapol RPN are said to have excellent buffing and embossing properties and produce very even and uniform dyeings. Cutapol SAL is a sulphated universally applicable fatliquor which produces leathers with excellent tight grains in the looser parts of the hide such as the belly and flanks. The product has a positive effect on grain tightness and fullness and can therefore be applied to automotive, upholstery and shoe upper leathers, where it improves the press cutting results. Leathers fatted with Cutapol SAL are said to have a round, pleasant, full and warm touch.

Tannit AL is an aluminium tanning agent in powder form, which can be applied in the tanning of furs, in the retannage of sheep and goat suede and for fixing hydrophobic finishes. When applied alone on furs, it produces white, stretchy and light-weight fur leathers. As a retanning agent on suede leather, a fine short nap and high brilliancy can be achieved.