This paper attempts to examine the impact of major variables affecting export performance of leather goods from Pakistan using primary data source. The exporters from Punjab province were taken as the sampling frame as they share almost 90 percent of total leather exports from Pakistan. In Punjab, leather production and export facilities are primarily located in district Sialkot and Kasur. A re...

Hygiene properties of leather shoes, which has great influence on health and comfort, mainly contains air permeability, water vapor permeability, hygroscopicity, heat preservation and antimicrobial ability. The developing situation of test technology on hygiene properties of leather shoes is summarized. Natural leather has excellent hygiene properties for its collagen fibers, each hygiene prope...

In 2013, we raised suspicion that cobalt in leather could be responsible for hitherto unrecognized cases of allergic contact dermatitis. We saw a patient sensitized only to cobalt with clear long-term exposure to cobalt from a leather sofa, and observed resolution of dermatitis following avoidance (1). In 2014,we performed a questionnaire study, which showed a positive and significant associati...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect on the incidence of cancer of exposure to chemicals handled in the leather tanning industry. MATERIALS AND METHODS A case-control study was performed within a cohort of 2487 workers employed for at least six months during the period 1900-89 in three Swedish leather tanneries. 68 cancer cases (lung, stomach, bladder, kidney, nasal, and pancreatic cancers and soft ...

In the present work an application of fuzzy neural networks for leather quality determination is investigated. An overview of the surface defects characteristics and their significance has been made. For leather quality estimation the most important features are the size and the location of the defects. These characteristics are measured using image analysis and they are used by fuzzy neural ne...

Abstract. Manalagi apple is Malanglocal that has high pectin content,so it potential to be processed into fruit leather. However, manalagi leather unattractive color and weak plasticity. The solution can used are using natural dye from anthocyanin pigment of butterfly pea flower gum arabic as hydrocolloid. This research was conducted determine the interaction, effect best treatment differences ...

In the present work the magnitudes of pigments in the synthetic leather, were measured by means of scanner. Initially synthetic leather samples pigmented by three different pigments of yellow, blue and red colors were prepared. Then the pigmented samples were scanned, and the values of RGB of images were calculated. The artificial neural network (ANN) method used to make relation between RGB va...

Leather industry is the most important traditional industry to provide the leather products in the world for thousand years. The fierce global competitive environment and common awareness of global carbon reduction make livestock supply quantities falling, salt and wet blue leather material reduces and the price skyrockets significantly. Exchange rate fluctuation led sales revenue decreasing wh...

In this study, the characterization and the antimicrobial properties of nano silver (nAg) coating on leather were investigated. For this purpose, turbidity, viscosity and pH of nAg solutions prepared by the sol-gel method were measured. The formation of films from these solutions was characterized according to temperature by Differential Thermal Analysis-Thermogravimetry (DTA-TG) equipment. The...

Intelligent resource usage is one of the most challenging tasks for the wood-based panels industry. With respect to this issue, leather shavings, derived during leather preparation, are a promising new raw material, as they offer not only high availability, but also potentially enhance material properties such as panel fire retardancy. In order to improve the performance of these emerging panel...