6 Summary The evaluation of the UNIDO Leather Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa, based on field visits to four countries, concludes that the Programme is relevant as it addresses actual needs of development partners and target beneficiaries (institutions, industrial companies, hides and skins extension services, etc.) in a sector with a potential to produce competitive companies. The Pro...

Leather industry is a traditional industry. Kolhapuri is a traditional chappal manufactured through a manual process. This is a case study of the manner in which the design process, manufacturing process and marketing was reengineered using ICT interventions. Use of ICT helped this industry to reposition itself. The main reason for the early adoption and rapid diffusion of the new technology ha...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect on the incidence of cancer of exposure to chemicals handled in the leather tanning industry. MATERIALS AND METHODS A case-control study was performed within a cohort of 2487 workers employed for at least six months during the period 1900-89 in three Swedish leather tanneries. 68 cancer cases (lung, stomach, bladder, kidney, nasal, and pancreatic cancers and soft ...

This paper aims to give an overview of the history development Albanian leather and footwear manufacturing sector covering whole production chain from processing as well perspective this in country its challenges.

Intelligent resource usage is one of the most challenging tasks for the wood-based panels industry. With respect to this issue, leather shavings, derived during leather preparation, are a promising new raw material, as they offer not only high availability, but also potentially enhance material properties such as panel fire retardancy. In order to improve the performance of these emerging panel...

This study presents the use of an innovative material to tackle hazardous wastes in leather industry. Activated carbons produced from Leather industry waste (LIW) were used adsorb (Cr) III and (VI), which are found wastewater. Two physical chemical activation processes this study. In activation, carbonization with CO2 carried out consecutively without intermediate cooling at 700 °C a residence ...

The interest in the carcinogenic and biological actions of N-nitroso compounds arose following the reports of the hepatotoxicity by Freund' and Barnes and Magee2 and ofcarcinogenicity (Magee and Barnes)3 of the simplest nitrosamine: N-nitrosodimethylamine (dimethylnitrosamine) and the subsequent observation of Schoental4 and Druckrey et aP on the carcinogenic action of the nitrosamides: n-methy...