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European Commission honours Inescop chrome-alternative leather project

05/04/2013

The efforts of Inescop, Spain’s technology institute for footwear and related industries, to encourage tanners to try alternatives to chrome tanning have won recognition from the European Commission. Inescop first published the findings of its work on leather tanned with titanium and oxazolidine instead of chrome in 2011. A Spanish tannery,...

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