Swedish tanner looks to spruce up veg-tanned leather

25/03/2010

A tanner in Sweden specialising in vegetable-tanned leather has called on competitors in southern Europe to join a campaign to use spruce bark as a source of taning agents.Torbjörn Lundin, chief executive of Tärnsjö Garveri AB, has told leatherbiz that his company has carried out a series of tests using spruce bark extract as a tanning agent in...