Beam House
Soaking · Liming · Bating
The raw hide is soaked back to life, then limed and bated. Hair and grease come away, the fibre structure swells open, and what is left is a pale, clean pelt ready to accept tanning.
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Forty-five years of leather chemistry
Transforming the art of leather craftsmanship.
Elevating leather craftsmanship with innovative chemical solutions for unparalleled quality and finish — manufactured in Lahore and applied in our Sialkot laboratory.
The process
From raw hide to finished leather.
Our eight product families follow the tannery in sequence — each one formulated for a specific stage of the journey from raw hide to finished leather.
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01
Beam House
Soaking · Liming · Bating
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02
Syntans
Retanning
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03
Resins
Retanning · Filling
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04
Fatliquoring
Fatliquoring
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05
Pigments & Liquid Dyes
Colouring
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06
Finishing Auxiliaries
Finishing
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07
Binders
Finishing
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08
NC Based Lacquer
Topcoat
45Years in the leather chemical industry
8Product families, beam house to topcoat
2003REACH compliance in our supply heritage
2016Leather Working Group certified membership
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The transformation
One hide, eight steps.
Follow a raw hide through the tannery. Every step below is work done by one of our product families — and the leather on the left changes as each one does its job.
Syntans
Retanning
Synthetic tanning agents lock the collagen so it can never putrefy. This is the moment a pelt stops being a hide and becomes leather — and where its fullness, softness and dye uptake are decided.
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Filling
Loose flanks and bellies are firmed and the surface is levelled, so a single hide behaves the same from shoulder to butt when it reaches the cutting table.
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Softening
Oils are driven between the fibres so they slide across one another again. Without this step leather dries to board. With it, it drapes, folds and creases the way leather should.
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Colouring
Penetrating liquid dyes carry colour into the substance of the leather, while amphoteric pigments build intensity and coverage on the surface. Twenty-nine shades — pick one below and watch it run through the rest.
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Finishing
Waxes and colloidal fillers set the hand and the feel: how the grain reads under the fingertips, how the surface plates, how it takes an emboss.
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Film forming
The binder is the film that carries the pigment and holds the whole finish to the leather. It governs how the surface glazes, how it plates, and how it wears over years of use.
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Topcoat
A nitrocellulose topcoat seals everything beneath it, bringing shine and the rub fastness that decides whether a finish survives the first season.
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What it becomes
Chemistry you can wear.
Our chemicals never reach the person who buys the shoe. The leather does — and how it looks, feels and lasts was settled long before it was cut.
Footwear
Boots, brogues, uppers and linings
Outerwear
Jackets, coats and gilets
Bags
Totes, satchels, straps and trims
Leather goods
Belts, wallets, gloves and small goods
Tell us what you are making.
We welcome technical enquiries from tanneries and leather goods manufacturers, and LWG-related environmental and performance questions.