In Future, Tanneries Will Get Hides as By-product from Regenerative Farming

In Future, Tanneries Will Get Hides as By-product from Regenerative Farming
Hide Out Royal Smit & Zoon has a dedicated R&D team focused on the most important leather making stage, being tanning, where it introduced Zeology, the truly sustainably alternative to existing leather tanning agents. It is chrome-free, heavy metal-free and aldehyde-free. The industry is increasingly embracing this new innovation. Eccofinishing / Pixabay

The focus at the century-old, family-run Royal Smit & Zoon is on bio-based chemistry, reducing usage of water, shortening leather-making processes, optimising waste stream. The emphasis is to support a society where nothing is wasted, everything can be re-used and ultimately recycled. The second and final part of the interview with Egbert Dikkers, Global Director ESG.