JAMMU, Feb 8: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday sought the support of Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) in the promotion of aroma, herbal and leather industry in Jammu and Kashmir. "We are also looking forward for technological intervention of CSIR to enable the State utilize huge quantity of …
JAMMU, Feb 8: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday sought the support of Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) in the promotion of aroma, herbal and leather industry in Jammu and Kashmir. "We are also looking forward for technological intervention of CSIR to enable the State utilize huge quantity of …
The present survey is the 12th in the series of “Quarterly Quick Employment Surveys” conducted by the Bureau to assess the impact of economic slowdown on employment in India. The survey was conducted in the month of October & November, 2011 and covers the period July-September, 2011. A total of …
New Delhi: Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board S P Gautam sold a patent he held privately on a technology to the apex authority on a revenue sharing basis and then passed a directive in his official capacity asking the leather industry to buy the expensive and untested know-how. …
Nellore, Dec. 13: Though it is six-years since the foundation stone was laid for the much publicised International Leather Park (ILP) near Krishnapatnam port, it has remained a non-starter even as a host of other projects launched a few years ago are getting ready for inauguration. This park was jointly …
LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November. The bench comprising justice Ashok Bhushan and justice Arun Tandon …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district. "The UPSIDC …
A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur. At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex
The segregation, collection and disposal of saline wastewater streams into solar evaporation are practiced in tanneries to minimize the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)and Chlorides in the treated effluent and to protect the environment. The wastewater generated from the soaking operation contains soluble proteins such as albumin & globulin and suspended …
Certification for semi-processed leather questioned Quarantine issues The annual imports of skin and hide through the Chennai port are estimated at about Rs 1,000 crore. Quarantine issues do not arise in the case of semi processed leather, which is chemically treated, says trade body. The manufacturers have also taken up …
leather has always been in vogue. This time round, it will be eco-friendly leather that will dominate the markets if the two final-year students of the Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata, get a patent for their product
A 1,400-year-old leather artefact found in the Yukon province of Canada has turned out to be a moccasin a soft leather slipper traditionally worn by American Indians. The object was recovered from a melting alpine ice patch in 2003 by Cody Joe of the Champagne and Aishihik indigenous community. He …
Researchers in the US have used a washing powder ingredient to turn waste leather into a high-value protein used in the manufacture of adhesives and packaging films. Agricultural Research Service scientists used alkaline protease to break leather shavings into low value protein hydrolysate that can be used in fertilisers. By …
Pakistan is gearing up to face the environmental conditions likely to be European countries in the New world trade order. As a first step, it has undertaken to facilitate a pollutionfree atmosphere at Kasur by Adopting the Kasur Tanneries Pollution Control Project. The project will ensure that only those leather …
