Wet Blue Testing

Why carry out wet blue testing?

While most testing is often carried out on finished products, many brands and retailers often carry out testing on materials during manufacture. By conducting wet blue testing, the hide is tested at a much earlier stage in the production process. Therefore, any potential contaminants or additives can be identified earlier and a solution created before the finished hide reaches the product manufacturing stage.

When producing wet blue, it is important that the quality and consistency of the product is maintained.

Eurofins | BLC wet blue testing identifies fluctuations in:

• Grease content
• Chrome content 
• pH 
• Shrinkage 

The above fluctuations identified in wet blue testing can cause variations in post tanning and dyeing processes, impacting on any finished products produced with the leather.

Many buyers of wet blue now require the product to meet stringent chemical content requirements (RSL) to satisfy their brand and retail customers, ensuring the finished product is of a safe and suitable quality standard.

What is smart wet blue testing?

At Eurofins | BLC, our unique smart wet blue testing service saves tanneries thousands of dollars and significantly reduces the testing burden.

Eurofins | BLC review the wet blue specifications of all tannery's customers, then conduct a series of wet blue tests which satisfy all the requirements across the individual customer specifications. The tannery will then receive a group of test reports, each one relating to each individual customer's specification.

Eurofins | BLC Leather Testing & Verification Services

As experts within the leather industry, Eurofins | BLC provide a wide range of leather tests for leather products, samples, and wet blue. Eurofins | BLC can also help your business solve leather production and product problems.

Eurofins | BLC’s leather testing and problem-solving services, include:

• All leather testing & verification services
• Physical leather tests for leather samples and products
• Specialist leather tests including microscopy
• Verify your products to ensure they are ‘genuine leather’
• Test fur and faux fur products for authenticity
• Leathermark verification for leather products retailed in the UK
• Determine the animal origins of leather through species testing
• DNA tracking in leather
• Wet blue testing for leather production
• Leather manufacturing problems & faults
• Leather upholstery production faults
• Mould contamination of leather products
• Leather consulting & auditing services

Please read our testing terms and conditions.