The ongoing trend is for leather producers to use contract wet blue as the raw material from which to make their end product, the finished leather. This is concentrating minds and resources upon specialised, flexible and high productivity equipment all the way from dyeing through preparation to finish application and measuring. There are significant developments affecting otherwise conceptually classic drying and pre-finishing machines. Computer or PLC management and linking individual machines by means of transfer, take off and feeding systems are in the forefront.
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