How It's Made Leather

Leather production dates back to  primitive times when humans rub fats  into animal skins to preserve them times  have changed but leather and yours from  footwear to furniture this tough  material remains an integral part of our  lives this leather comes from the hides  of cows killed for meat without tanning  these cow hides would go to waste  converting them to leather is a kind of  recycling.

The first step is to cut each  hide in half the hides are draped over a  sawhorse stamped with an identification  code and slice down the center to  smaller pieces will be easier to handle  in process than one large hide hundreds  of these hide halves are loaded into a  modified cement mixer for some serious  hair removal.

As the mixer fills with water  a worker dumps in a combination of  sodium sulfide rate and lime a chemical  reaction strips the hair from the hides  the hairless hides now get an acid bath  to prepare them for the tanning process...

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