Leather manufacturing involves a crucial energy-intensive drying stage in the finishing process to remove its residual moisture. Determining drying characteristics of leather is vitally important so as to optimize the drying stage. This paper describes an analytical way for determination of the drying characteristics of leather. The model presented, is based on fundamental heat and mass tra...

As a matter of fact, it has been witnessed that the synthetic leather is becoming main substitute to its natural counterpart. This phenomenon observed in vast majority fields where these materials are being exploited such as: vehicles interior and furniture skin materials. All which urges presence fundamental characteristics include but not limited soft texture, flexibility, mechanical strength...

It is rather strange that today I am talking about chrome-free tannages when I have devoted my whole life to improving the chrome-tanning system. When I was a student, I wondered why chrome tanned leather that stood the boil, did so only for about 1 to 2 minutes. My ambition was to find out how leather could be treated like textile, and we discovered and patented a product and process for impro...

Looseness is defect that affects the quality of a significant proportion of leather, particularly bovine leather. This defect causes a wrinkled appearance on the leather surface and results in a significant reduction in the leathers value. The structural mechanism and causes of looseness in leather are not well understood; therefore this study aims to gain a better understanding of this. We hav...

Food waste and fashion pollution are two of the most prominent global environmental issues. To alleviate problems associated with food waste, while simultaneously contributing to sustainable fashion, feasibility making an alternative textile material leather-like properties from fungal biomass cultivated on bread was investigated. The filamentous fungus, Rhizopus delemar, successfully grown in ...