No more metals and glutaraldehyde: leather waste and shaving leftovers are no longer harmful. The Tuscan company presents the eco-sustainable solution that revolutionizes the early stages of the tanning process, suitable for those tanneries that want to achieve the “biodegradable leather” certification
It is the starting point for obtaining biodegradable and compostable leather. But it is also the most ecological solution for storing leathers and making them no longer perishable, without the need for chromium, glutaraldehyde and other aggressive chemicals. It is the FUTURE WHITE pre-tanning system developed by the Dermacolor, created for those tanneries that want to produce leather in the name of circularity, offering them the keys to achieve the biodegradability certifications in water and compost. A system designed to revolutionize the preliminary steps of tanning, eliminating the main risk factors for the environment and creating the conditions to ensure the circularity of the hides.
Rooted in the Tuscan tanning district and renowned in the main Italian and world districts, Dermacolor specializes in the production of chemicals for tanning and leather processing, all developed in the company’s laboratories. Dermacolor is a true reference point for tanneries called upon to face the challenge of sustainability, hence the idea of FUTURE WHITE pre-tanning: a white pre-tanning agent, chromium-free, but at the same time it’s a “pre-tanning of the future”, because it is also free of glutaraldehyde, phosphonium salts, triazine compounds and other metals. Advantages are countless, starting from the possibility of stabilizing the leathers (making them indestructible), and then selecting and storing them for several years without the need for tanning them with chromium, other metals or aggressive chemicals. “In this way – explains Andrea Meucci, at the helm of Dermacolor together with Valentina Palagini – we obtain a leather free from metals and biodegradable in waste water and compost, which can be stored for a very long time or dried and then re-greened without the use of chemical wetting agents.” A versatile system, starting from which tanneries can obtain all types of leather, from vegetable to metal-free to classic chrome-tanned ones.
“There is one essential difference, however – Meucci underlines –: chrome never enters the work cycle until the retanning phase. Consequently, all the previous processes will produce scraps, crusts, splits, shaving leftovers free of chromium and thus biodegradable: low environmental impact wastes, therefore, which can be treated and recovered ecologically.”
Valentina Palagini e Andrea Meucci