From silky soft, lightweight, fabric-like fashionable items to protective second skin during work and leisure: here, you can find the right additives for your leather production.
Surfactants are indispensable auxiliaries when it comes to soaking, the degreasing of all raw materials that are heavy in natural grease as well as the re-wetting of intermediately dried crust leathers. Their special emulsifying and degreasing properties as well as their unique wetting and dispersing properties provide the desired effect. The Zschimmer & Schwarz product portfolio has a wide selection of surfactants for a wide variety of uses.
In the optimal processing of hides, the tanner has to take into account varying characteristics, such as grain tightness, fullness and area yield. Zschimmer & Schwarz offers a wide range of tanning agents for this purpose: mineral, synthetic, vegetable and polymer-based tanning agents guarantee reliable production – even with a very different quality of delivered raw hides.
Fatliquoring agents have a major impact on the quality of the final product. Therefore, the right choice and the perfect combination are crucial to specifically influence properties such as light fastness, heat stability, water repellency and breathability. Fatliquoring agents provide the preservation of the physical fastness properties by lubricating the fibre.
Non-everyday auxiliaries with specific properties are so-called "specialities". They perform essential tasks, such as reducing odours that occur in the beamhouse on wet blue leather, or specifically counteracting the formation of chromium VI.
