Smelly leather – Case #228

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Practical solutions to problems encountered in the manufacturing process that demonstrate how we assist our customers’ factories to produce Right from the Start ^TM.

Problem: a lot of cowhide finished leather arrived at final inspection with a very strong smell.

Impactiva solution: we suggested the tannery to hang the hides up for 6 days to disperse the smell. After 6 days the smell didn’t disappear so we had to reject the lot. We performed a root cause analysis, and found that the reason was that the tannery used an expired chemical product in the finishing of this lot.

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