Objective
To survive and compete within the growing world market, the European leather industry is constantly faced with the need to maintain and improve product quality through the implementation of clean technologies. This project will aim to assess the potential benefits of using enzymes in the early stages of leather processing. Innovations addressed include the use of cellulase enzymes to remove dung from cattle hides, the removal of grease with lipolytic enzymes and targeted hair removal. The project is a balance of laboratory scale and tannery scale trials which will aim to screen potentially useful products prior to larger scale evaluation with regard to leather quality and effluent loading. This research will help the European leather industry gain a competetive edge within the world market by refining the processing of leather through the introduction of cleaner enzyme systems resulting in enhanced product quality and performance.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Coordinator
CB2 4HN Sawston, Cambridge
United Kingdom
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