BLC - Providing Solutions to Leather Problems for 85 years

Benefit from fast, practical solutions to urgent and recurring leather problems; such as loose leather or uneven dyeing. Experienced leather technicians at BLC offer a confidential on-site troubleshooting service using scientific techniques to identify and correct the cause of leather problems.

Problems in leather processing
Do you have difficulty finding the cause of a recurring technical leather problem? In our experience it is rarely one, but more often a combination of factors, that cause leather processing problems. For this reason BLC uses a logical, scientific approach to leather problem solving to identify minor and major issues which may have been overlooked during initial in-house examination.

Benefits

Rapid identification of leather problems
Targeted leather solutions
Independent scientific approach
Framework for improvement

Looseness in leather
Looseness in leather can be caused by a number of leather processing factors; bacterial degradation in the raw stock, excessive opening up in the beamhouse, fatliquor penetration, impregnation, mechanical stressing, leather moisture content and drying amongst others. With all these factors it is critical to have tight control over the trials and the subsequent evaluation. BLC's technical team can help tannery staff, who often have limited time or resources, to tackle these problems in a logical way.

Signs of excessive growth
Understanding background science is important when dealing with this type of leather problem and is where the blend of leather science and leather experience at BLC pays dividends. For example, our research has shown that soaking, over liming, under liming, pH gradients and tannage application all have a considerable effect on growth.

Other leather problems
Whatever your leather processing problem, BLC is likely to have either seen or solved it before. For most situations our technical team will be able to provide a range of solutions.

For further details please contact Adam Hughes on adam@blcleathertech.com or call +44 (0) 1604 679999.