In Shape® was born from Simona Tanning’s continued drive to find sustainable and ecological solutions for the leather industry. In Shape® offers our partners the opportunity to reduce cutting and trimming waste associated with leather.
The hides are trimmed before tanning to remove lower quality areas. The trimmings are then sold as collagen to companies producing gelatin, while the hides go through standard leather tanning operations.
Once in the wet blue stage Simona will trim again to further remove undesirable areas. The remaining skin can then be tanned into crust, and eventually finished leather, and no furthered trimming is necessary before shipment to the factory for use.
The wet blue trimming & crust waste are then transferred to one of Simona’s partners in China (LeathSoles – Merake, Cycleather DaFeng Paperboard and Xiangchen) to become other byproducts such as soles, insoles, cardboard boxes, leather fabric, etc.
Trimming Waste Reduction
Water Reduction
CO2 Emission Reduction
Energy Reduction
Chemical Reduction (Wet Blue phase)
Chemical Reduction (Crust phase)
Chemical Reduction (Finishing phase)
The hides before tannage process weigh around 40Kg per hide . After trimming we have a avarage weigh of 36.4Kg per hide.
We save an avarage of 9% of trimming , and all these trimming are send to Brazil to a main partners of our LWG tannery partner, to be use in the gelatin industry.
Leather lot weight: +/- 790KG
Leather lot sqft: +/- 6000sqft
Leather Water saving per lot tannage: 25.46 liters
Leather Chemical saving per lot tannage: 128.80 Kg
The Trimming of the In Shape® leather that Simona still does before retannage process is very little, around 1%.
All Simona trimming from In Shape® and other leathers are sent to 3 main partners of Simona, that use the trimming together with our shaving dust to make paperboards, leathsoles and cycleathers.
Leather lot weight: +/- 790KG
Leather lot sqft: +/- 6000sqft
Leather Water saving per lot retannage: 420 liters
Leather Chemical saving per lot retannage: 54 Kg
Leather lot weight: +/- 790KG
Leather lot sqft: +/- 6000sqft
Leather Chemical saving per lot finishing: 28 Kg
SIMONA TANNING
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