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A transposed process for making wet processed leather

The present invention relates to a transposed process for making wet processed leather. In the process, the post tanning wet operations are done prior to tanning stage itself to make leather in eco-friendly manner in substantially shorter duration. It is envisaged to have enormous potential application in leather industry for making leathers with comparable softness and grain smoothness, whereby the pollution load would be significantly less compared to that of the conventional leather processing.

Filing Date: 20-02-2004

Issue Date: 28-11-2008

Patent No: IN225353 [India]

Application No: 389/DELNP/2004

Inventor(s): Subramani Saravanabhavan; Palanisamy Thanikaivelan; Jonnalagadda Raghava Rao; Balachandran Unni Nair; Thirumalachari Ram

Licensing Option: Laboratory willing to jointly develop technology with industrial partner.

Implementing institute: CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute [CSIR-CLRI]

Funding agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

IPC Classification: C14C 9/00

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