BLC has an unsurpassed and internationally acknowledged pedigree in research and development, based on the intellectual capital and knowledge gained from 80 years of leading edge leather research.  Use our team of dynamic and highly qualified scientists, engineers and leather technologists, backed with modern, state-of-the-art analytical equipment, to develop your confidential R&D requirements.

Working with tanners and manufacturers

• developing new leathers and processes
• optimising existing processes
• confidential and independent product assessments
• develop concepts from feasibility to a market-ready product

An example of a successful product is:

NOVOCOR AX - area yield improvement
Developed in conjunction with BLC Leathersellers Research Centre, a joint venture with The University of Northampton, this enzyme system, which is applied in the wet blue, degrades elastin giving a larger flatter gain. Now used by many of the world's best known tanners to gain area yield increases. For further information contact Novozymes

 

Benefits

• Develop products and processes
• Gain competitive advantage
• Enhance market credibility
• Benchmark against existing products