ASSIGNMENT ONE

a) What is the tanning industry?

This is basically a manufacturing production enterprise, where
animal skins and hides are processed into leather by modifying their
organic structure permanently termed tanning. There are technical
procedures strictly adhered to in order to arrive at a high-quality
indecomposable leather. This process known as tanning has thrived
for years.

b) What Does The Tanning Industry Entail?

Leather produced are Qualitative and creative expression of artisan
craftsmanship in the tanning industry.
A manufacturing tradition that has created and still creates wealth
both economically and socially, promoting and developing the areas
where the manufacturers are present. The Tanning Industry has
evolved by interpreting and satisfying the requirements of luxury,
fashion design and automotive and even the furniture industries.
Leather in its finished product is beautiful and lasts for a hundred
(100) years.

Tanning of hides and skins is a complex and diversified process

which goes through preparation, salt soaking, lime soaking, deliming,
dehairing, desalting, tanning, tawing and the rinsing to regulate the
pH (the Acidity or Basicity of a solution).

This industry uses the by-products of another industry; skin from

animals raised solely for their meat. Yet there have been many
concerns about this industry from environmental to health. Toxic
chemicals such as mainly Chromium in about two – thirds (2/3) of
cases is used to transform hide and skins into leather.

In third world countries like ours, disposing of these chemicals and

their residues have been poorly managed. Dumped into rivers and
oceans, they pollute our fresh water and life in the seas.
Health and safety PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) are often not
used by most factory workers or employees, causing skin, eye and
respiratory diseases.
However, the process of vegetable tanning, though a longer process
seemed safer to the chromium-based tanning until also proven to be
similar.

Vegan Leather made of PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) also seems eco-
friendly for animal welfare. The good news is that some sustainable
leather options are starting to appear like the Pineapple fibre leather.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

a. What does the leather artifacts making industry entail?

This is a tertiary member in the production chain who