About Leather

"Product Innovation is core to our business - its one of the principal reasons we’re so successful in so many different product sectors" Matthew Nicholls - Managing Director

Glossary of Terms

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Leather	Hide or skin which still retains its original fibrous structure more or less intact, and which has been treated so as to be imputrescible even after exposure to water. The hair or wool may or may not have been removed. Certain skins, similarly treated or dressed, and without the hair removed, are termed "fur".
Leather studs	To add further value for our customers, the supply chain can be organised to deliver leather as cut parts. Automated cutting makes the optimum use of the natural shape of a hide, producing the maximum number of components with minimum waste - and all at a fixed price. The latest laser-guided technology lets us cut with precision and allows for a just-in-time supply of leather parts. Deliveries can be made by grouping pre-cut parts together by project to ensure that clients are never short of leather. There's no need to maintain a minimum stock-holding - a key benefit for our clients' cash flow.
Looseness	A term given to leather where: - The grain corium junction has broken down and the result is that the boundary has become very loosely joined. - The grain layer has been allowed to relax, to emphasise that its area is bigger than the corium. - Too much substance is removed from the corium during chemical processing early in the process of making the leather Looseness gives an appearance of large wrinkles when it is distorted, the leather feels empty and almost bubbly.

Leather

Hide or skin which still retains its original fibrous structure more or less intact, and which has been treated so as to be imputrescible even after exposure to water. The hair or wool may or may not have been removed. Certain skins, similarly treated or dressed, and without the hair removed, are termed "fur".

Leather studs

To add further value for our customers, the supply chain can be organised to deliver leather as cut parts. Automated cutting makes the optimum use of the natural shape of a hide, producing the maximum number of components with minimum waste - and all at a fixed price.

The latest laser-guided technology lets us cut with precision and allows for a just-in-time supply of leather parts. Deliveries can be made by grouping pre-cut parts together by project to ensure that clients are never short of leather. There's no need to maintain a minimum stock-holding - a key benefit for our clients' cash flow.

Looseness

A term given to leather where:

- The grain corium junction has broken down and the result is that the boundary has become very loosely joined.
- The grain layer has been allowed to relax, to emphasise that its area is bigger than the corium.

- Too much substance is removed from the corium during chemical processing early in the process of making the leather

Looseness gives an appearance of large wrinkles when it is distorted, the leather feels empty and almost bubbly.