Leather Technologist MOOC
The Leather Technologist MOOC was developed under the Skills4Smart TCLF project. The course provides training materials on leather production processes, beamhouse operations, tanning, post-tanning, finishing, quality control, chemical risk management, clean technologies, workplace safety and technical requirements for leather manufacturing.
The video lectures are available below as additional training material.
| No. | Lesson | Video |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beamhouse operations: unhairing and liming | [Access video] |
| 2 | Chemicals and materials for leather manufacturing | [Access video] |
| 3 | Chemicals management and housekeeping | [Access video] |
| 4 | Clean technologies in the leather industry | [Access video] |
| 5 | Emissions of pollutants from finishing: VOC and new technologies | [Access video] |
| 6 | Finishing products: binders, polymers and colouring | [Access video] |
| 7 | General features of leather finishing | [Access video] |
| 8 | Health and safety in the workplace | [Access video] |
| 9 | Last beamhouse operations: deliming and bating | [Access video] |
| 10 | Machinery for painting, drying and ironing | [Access video] |
| 11 | Mechanical beamhouse operations: fleshing and splitting | [Access video] |
| 12 | Operations of the leather processing chain 1 | [Access video] |
| 13 | Operations of the leather processing chain 2 | [Access video] |
| 14 | Post-tanning mechanisations: sammying, drying and conditioning | [Access video] |
| 15 | Post-tanning operations: retanning, greasing and dyeing | [Access video] |
| 16 | Preservation of raw hides and skins | [Access video] |
| 17 | Quality assessment of finishing leather | [Access video] |
| 18 | Quality control along the production process | [Access video] |
| 19 | Quality regulations and chemical risk monitoring | [Access video] |
| 20 | Some facts about the chemistry of hides and skins | [Access video] |
| 21 | Tanning technologies: wet-blue, vegetable tanning and alternatives | [Access video] |
| 22 | Technical characteristics and requirements of leather | [Access video] |
| 23 | The soaking process of raw material | [Access video] |
| 24 | The tanning process: pickling and chrome leather tanning | [Access video] |
| 25 | Typical coating layers and how they relate to the leather surface | [Access video] |
| 26 | What is leather? | [Access video] |