 Laminating becomes more accessible [premium content]
Italian tannery machinery manufacturer Bergi is focusing on the development and production of pre-finishing and finishing
equipment and has recently widened the scope of its rotary ironing and embossing machines.
Conventional perception of the leather laminating process is of complex, singlepurpose production lines needing large batch runs to justify their existence. Not so with the Transfer Kit recently developed by Bergi engineers.
World Leather - 01 - Feb/Mar 2008
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Grain down splitting opens the way [premium content]
Leather splitting has for long been the most difficult process to introduce to “hands
off” automation. At the same time operator and maintenance personnel protection
and safety has been problematical because of the design of the classic splitting
machine. The advent of the “upside down” grain down splitting machine developed
several years ago by the Linta Company based in the Arzignano cluster has made it
possible to introduce new feeding and take off systems creating the splitting line.
This, as well as the changed roller/knife mounting configuration, takes hands away
from the dangerous band knife edge resulting in much greater safety.
Across the board more precise splitting performance and simplified machine
maintenance is the focal point of new design elements resulting in a system which
together with the grain down concept, has captured a significant proportion of the
market since its inception.
World Leather - 03 - May 2008
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The Machine Minder: The 3800mm-wide rotary sprayer is born [premium content]
Finishing machinery specialist engineer Gemata has made a significant step forward by developing a 3800mm wide rotary leather spraying machine.
World Leather - 08 - Dec/Jan 2007
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The Machine Minder: Mechanisation of sheepskin movement in the prepara... [premium content]
The labour-intensive transfer of sheepskins—between de-woolling, liming, fleshing and pickling, including the handling of the pulled wool—has been addressed by Spanish tanner Adobinve in its new plant at Móra d’Ebre in Catalonia.
World Leather - 07 - Nov 2007
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Polypropylene drums: providing new opportunities within leather-making [premium content]
Polypropylene revolutionised the drum concept, replacing wood as the preferred construction material, and now new interesting projects are destined to make radical changes to the future of tanning.
World Leather - 06 - Oct 2007
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The Machine Minder: Corrosion, the old enemy [premium content]
Corrosion can eat into profits as well as concrete and steel — in fighting corrosion in the tannery, let the strategy be decided by those who will be involved in the trench warfare.
World Leather - 06 - Oct 2007
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The Machine Minder: The case for in-house training of tannery engineer... [premium content]
A good tannery engineer needs a mix of three basic qualities — a wide ranging basic technical education, an ability to maintain good engineering standards in sometimes harsh and unpleasant working conditions, and an understanding of what leather production is all about. The best way to achieve this ideal mix is to train these engineers in the tannery itself.
World Leather - 05 - Aug/Sept 2007
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The Machine Minder: Maintenance strategies—what’s in fashion now? [premium content]
Once an engineer realises that you are not going to impose a system on him, dialogue and co-operation in proposing
and implementing a maintenance improvement programme may
well follow.
World Leather - 04 - June/July 2007
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Tanning Tech review 2007 [premium content]
After eighteen months of hibernation, Tanning Tech returned to the exhibition halls of Bologna this spring and, although visitor numbers may have been disappointing, there was still some interesting machinery on show.
World Leather - 03 - May 2007
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The Machine Minder: Closing the loop [premium content]
Traceability and tracking through the tannery.
World Leather - 02 - April 2007
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