An Eur2.3 million multinational research project, geared to reducing the environmental impact of the leather manufacturing process in the developing world, has been unveiled  in India.

The project was announced at the concluding session of last week’s 'Leather Research Industry Get-together’ (LERIG 2003) which was held in Chennai.  Eight laboratories from Australia, Germany, the UK, Bangladesh and India will participate in the five-year project, which will be largely funded by the European Commission. Each laboratory will be assigned its own set of objectives including finding replacements for sodium chloride and silica salts and investigating new ways in which waste water can be used in agriculture.

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