Lanxess
Lanxess is a leading specialty chemicals company based in Cologne.
With around 12,400 employees in 32 countries, Lanxess is an established company on the global market. Its core business is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives and consumer protection products with annual sales of EUR 6.7 billion (2023).
Ar-Tu Kimya
Founded in 1983, AR-TU KIMYA is the manufaturer / supplier of vegetable tannin extracts and powders. With low carbon footprint of the company, and other certifications, AR-TU KIMYA contributes to the future of the leather industry.
Zschimmer & Schwarz
We offer customised solutions which combine the highest quality with customer-oriented service – in other words, “Chemistry tailor-made”.
Zschimmer & Schwarz is a global supplier of chemical auxiliaries and specialities headquartered in Lahnstein near Koblenz, Germany. The family business was founded in Chemnitz in 1894 and is positioned across industries with different business divisions. The company develops, produces and distributes tailor-made chemical auxiliaries for the leather, fur, ceramic, textile and chemical fibre industries. Manufacturers of cleaning agents, personal care products, paints and coatings, lubricants and industrial applications all over the world trust in the company’s chemical specialities as well. The Zschimmer & Schwarz Group comprises 30 companies in 17 countries on five continents, 22 of which have their own
production facilities.
Leather Auxiliaries Division
In addition to customers from the automotive leather and shoe upper leather markets, our business division serves tanners around the world who manufacture leather for the clothing, bag, furniture and fur industries. Our product range covers the entire leather production process and includes fatliquors, retanning agents, surfactants as well as speciality chemicals for finishing. These products allow our customers to create ideal leather characteristics for their needs, such as softness, volume, structure and touch. We make use of modern research and development laboratories, a fully equipped test tannery and several production sites to provide specific solutions for the customers’ requirements, which vary considerably depending on fashions and trends. Highly specialised leather technicians, who are in touch with existing and potential customers worldwide, offer first-class technical service to supplement the high-performance product range.
Trumpler
The Trumpler brand encompasses wet-end leather chemicals and dyes (Trumpler), leather finishing products (Langro), and paper dyes and auxiliaries (Robama), with established manufacturing and distribution centres worldwide.
Established in 1868, Trumpler recently celebrated 150 years of family ownership and is inherently committed to a sustainable future for its customers, employees, community and suppliers. This approach has been achieved organically, through innovative product development, technical solutions and internationally recognised quality assurance standards.
With the recent acquisition of Langro, we served to strengthen the product and services portfolio and have expanded the manufacturing and distribution capabilities across the Group. With affiliates and sales agencies in more than 100 countries worldwide, Trumpler is increasingly focussed on customer service and logistics networks, as well as technical knowledge and application support.
Our product portfolio and technical solutions are continually refreshed and modernised to reflect the ever-changing requirements of an industry adapting to more rigorous and challenging social and environmental standards. Trumpler is a loyal and committed supporter of initiatives that address the needs of the leather industry as a whole.
TFL
Our business consists of the development, production and marketing of specialty chemicals such as tanning agents and dyestuffs with which our customers, mainly tanneries, are contributing to create an attractive end article such as leather automotive interior.
Tanac S/A
Established in 1948, specialist in the production of vegetable tanning extracts and black wattle wood chips.
Stahl Holding BV
Specialist in process chemicals for leather and other substrates for the automotive (and other transportation), industrial application, interior design, leisure & lifestyle and apparel & accessories industry.
Royal Smit & Zoon
We offer sustainable solutions for leather manufacturers.
Royal Smit & Zoon develops and produces sustainable chemical solutions for the leather industry and has, since the start in 1821, grown into a worldwide renowned player. Smit and Codyeco, two of our subsidiaries, are household names in wet-end and finishing. Since October 2020 Royal Smit & Zoon is also providing sustainable tanning solutions, under the new subsidiary Nera.
Our ambition is to create a more sustainable leather value chain together.
Globally, Royal Smit & Zoon has over 400 employees. Our headquarters is in Weesp, the Netherlands and we have offices in Germany, Italy, China, India, and Mexico.
SCRD
Faithful to our history, we develop and manufacture a wide range of natural and renewable products for the leather industry, which we market worldwide
Established in Le Havre, the biggest French harbor, located 2 hours West of Paris. It is in this city that our production site and our Research and Development (R&D) departments are located. This geographical location allows an international presence, technical assistance and logistics matching the markets’ requirements. We also have an application laboratory located in Graulhet, South-West of France, in the historic center of the French tanning industry and European cradle of the world’s leading luxury brands.
Our commitment to our customers regardless of location (domestic or international) is in our DNA at SCRD, coupled with our systematic approach to our production and distribution systems ensure that we can have Just-in-Time (JIT) deliveries.
In a desire for long-term relationships, we partner with our customers in their developments. Reliability, adaptability, flexibility characterize us.
For many years, SCRD has been mastering his formulations and refining his innovative products, with a respectful approach to natural resources SCRD cultivates two hundred (200) hectares of land in Southern Nicaragua where we planted two hundred thousand (200 000) trees in 2019 to continue our long-term goal of sustainability through responsible cultivation. This husbandry of a natural resource ensures we always have quality assets as we harvest and process the extracts for tanning and dyes. We have innovative process where we create non-aggressive methods that minimise any environmental concerns with the aqueous extraction of tannins.
We offer a PREMIUM support service, with consideration of both your technical and environmental challenges.
We create new tanning ingredients, aimed toward excellence that are essentially and quintessentially vegetable-based. Innovative products with high added value, in order to obtain exceptional and extraordinary leathers.
Our historical knowledge of plant and tree extracts that are used in tanning and coupled with our daily commitment to excellence, explains our mastery of formulations and refinement of vegetable molecules.
Set up technical and / or administrative solutions to enable you to meet your strict legislative and normative requirements.
To propose natural products respectful of the resources and to develop new methods of synthesis in agreement with our approach of sustainable development. To bring you tailor-made sustainable and innovative solutions.
Schill + Seilacher
Meeting the needs of customers with true innovations, has made us a market leader for sustainable, eco-friendly and highly effective products and processes that work.
Schill & Seilacher, since 1877, one of the oldest suppliers of leather chemicals in the world. Meeting the needs of customers with true innovations, has made us a market leader for sustainable, eco-friendly and highly effective products and processes that work.
Part of the Schill & Seilacher group of companies with six independently operating production sites worldwide. Manufacturer of fine chemicals for leather, as well as textile, spin finish, paper, rubber cosmetics and other fine chemicals.
Today Schill & Seilacher’s innovative product range, with its eco-friendly and sustainable focus, allows the production of high specification leather for use in aircraft, automobile, furniture and fashion leathers for shoe, garment, handbag and accessories.
Our pioneering development of products and processes in the fields of beamhouse, wet white pre-tanning, vegetable oil based fatliquoring, waterproofing and flame-retardancy, has made us a trusted partner to the leather industry.
For the future, we will continue our commitment to expanding the use of sustainable and renewable raw materials as well as to the development of eco-friendly production and application processes.
Our team of experienced and highly skilled leather technicians are ready to help you meet the demands of our changing world and to meet the challenges ahead.