Brining beats salt-packing in the Andes
04/09/2007
Italian tanning group Rhom Alpina has announced that it is changing the way it treats the raw hides it transports to Arzignano from Peru and Ecuador.
The company produces 1,700 raw hides a day at its facilities in the Andean countries during quieter months, and as many as 4,000 in busier times.
It is now in the process of moving away from salt-packing these hides to use brining as the means of preserving them instead. Some warehouses are still using the salt-packing method, it says, but it will introducing brining at these sites too in the near future.
