Rohm Gmbh

Roehm Gmbh Chemische Fabrik

Gertrud Wick

Juergen Christner

Tilman Taeger

Ernst Pfleiderer

Harald Bauer

An aqueous liquid composition containing one or more enzymatic active substances and at least 10 wt % to a maximum of (100-x) wt % molasses, wherein x is the fraction of enzymatic active substances in wt % and wherein x is a value from 0.001 to 90, which is useful for the production of leather in the beamhouse, to improve rehydration and dirt removal while soaking, to improve the loosening of hair and to inhibit swelling during liming, and to improve the cleaning of the surface of the skin during bating.

Stable enzymatic aqueous liquid composition for the production of leather

A method for preparing unhaired hides ready for tanning from hides and skins using proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes in the beamhouse, whereby in at least one of the partial steps of the beamhouse consisting of a) liming in the pH range 11.5-14 and b) bating in the pH range 5-11.5, alkaline lipases (E.C.3.1.3.) having an activity optimum in the pH range 9-11 are added to the aqueous floats corresponding to these partial steps.

Method for the enzymatic liming of skins and hides

A method for liming hides and skins using a proteolytic enzyme in an aqueous-alkaline float is taught, wherein the liming float has a pH value from 10-14 and contains both thiourea dioxide and an alkaline protease having elastase activity.

Method for liming hides and skins

Tanning agents containing an .omega.,.omega.-dialdehyde as as the active tanning substance, optionally in a deactivated form, in combination with a polymer containing hydroxyl groups, and methods for using such tanning agents in the preparation of leather, particularly in pickling, tanning, and retanning.

Tanning agent containing a dialdehyde

Method of preparing leather from unhaired hides

A method for the wet degreasing of raw hides and skins, pelts, and wet blues under the conditions of enzymatic bating, wherein enzymatic bating of the hide stock is carried out with proteolytic enzymes in the presence of synthetic surface active substances, for example, a mixture of a non-ionic emulsifier and anionic emulsifier.

Method for the wet degreasing of hide and skin stock

Tanning agents containing a complex formed between chromium ions and an acrylate or methacrylate polymer and further including an organically bound thio group present in said polymer or in a mercapto compound added to the tanning agents, and methods for pickling, tanning, and retanning skins and hides with such tanning agents.

Acrylate tanning agent

An enzymatic method for the unhairing of hides and skins in the alkaline pH range by treating them in a liquor at a pH from 9 to 11 with a proteolytic enzyme having an optimum activity in the pH range from 2 to 7.5, and then unhairing.

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