Pickling and Tanning - Operating Information

TFL's detailed knowledge of the mechanism of pickling, and its impact on the tanning process, has resulted in auxiliaries which ensure the skin is properly prepared for the uniform distribution of the tanning molecules.

Adjusting the pickle to ensure its uniform penetration is a matter of judicious adjustment with generic masking salts, or with TFL specialties, where their properties are judged beneficial. With certain auxiliaries, a pickle free of salt can be achieved.

WARNING: Pickling and chrome tanning processes can release highly toxic hydrogen sulphide gas. The appropriate respiratory protective equipment must be worn when opening vessels or checking pelts.

The pickling process prepares the pelt for the chrome tannage or is used as a form of long term preservation particularly for sheep skins pelts which are traded around the world in the pickled condition.

In the most simple form pickling consists of the treating the skins or hides with salt (sodium chloride) and an acid, usually sulphuric acid.
To help penetration of the pickle and to provide a masking effect to aid chrome penetration, it is common to add organic acids or their salts, the most common being formic acid or sodium formate.

Lime fleshed hides or skins delime more easily and if the delime process is optimised the pickling will in turn be more easily accomplished.

Pickling agent, SELLATAN P, enables low salt pickling which in combination with a wet-white tannage using SELLATAN WL-G or CFX new provides a environmentally sound process for chrome free leathers.

Procesos

  • Beamhouse

Industrias

  • Garment
  • Upholstery
  • Automotive
  • Shoe