"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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NAMAS
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The former name of UKAS, the government accreditation organisation.
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Nappa
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Soft full grain gloving or clothing leather made from unsplit sheep or lambskin' or kid-skin. It is usually tanned with alum and chromium salts and dyed throughout its substance.
Soft full grain leather, formerly made from unsplit sheepskin or lambskin or kidskin for gloving or clothing, but nowadays also made from split hide. It was originally tanned with chromium salts and dyed throughout its substance. Orignally made in the town of Napa, California, from whence it derives its name
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Natural Defect
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Defects in the hide or skin that occur naturally throughout the life cycle of the cow, examples include scars, scratches and growth marks.
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Nubuck
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Cattle hide leather buffed on the grain side to give a velvety surface that has a distinctive nap to its surface.
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