Reducing natural leather wrinkles to maximise cutting yield

摘要

Wrinkles are genetically programmed in any animal and appear as the breakdown of collagen occurs with age. The degradation is achieved by an immutable biochemistry that, over time, creates collagen-related aging compounds that are increasingly dry, weak and brittle. ATC Tannery Chemicals has developed a product for use in the beamhouse that it states can reduce natural animal wrinkles and help maximise cutting yields without having to perform heavy buffing and finishing processes. The company argues that this can improve uniformity from hide to hide or skin to skin.