In leather industry, the hides & skin have to be free from fat & protein to have better tanning effect. Here industrial enzymes like proteases are used for clearing proteins and lipases for fat removal. Today proteases are basically used for soaking, bating and enzyme assisted un-hairing & Lipases for dissolving & removal fat.

an enzymatic process by which scud is loosened and other unwanted proteins are removed. It makes the grain surface of the finished leather clean, smooth and fine and cannot be replaced by any chemical process.

The conventional way for bating employed manure of dog, pigeon or hen. But it was slow methods and unpleasant, unreliable one. That is why many progressive industrialists preferred to replace with this method with use of industrial enzymes.

JAGSON produces both types of protease enzymes for bating,delkobate for alkaline pH conditions and delkocide for acidic pH conditions.

Soaking is 1 st stage of leather processing. dirt, blood, flesh, grease, dung etc are washed way and most importantly, re-hydrates the skin /hides to bring as far as possible back to state of green one from the Hides and skins received into a tannery. It is very important for all types of skin hides (as green or fresh, as wet salted, as dry salted or as dried) to produce qualitative leather. There are three types of agents like Chemical, Surface-active and Enzymatic agents for this purpose..

Enzymatic agents are biocatalyst. Specific protease and lipase enzymes enhance water uptake by dissolving intrafibrillary proteins that cement fibers together and disperse fats and oils together with dirt and other contaminants present on skin. Delkosoak is a mixture of protease and lipase, which work well specially in alkaline pH conditions.

Generally Hair burning process using lime and sodium sulphide are used for hair removal from bovine hides. It dissolve the hair and open up the fiber structure.

Most importantly, enzyme-assisted un-hairing results in a cleaner grain surface and improved area yield and softness. Here Jagson produces specific proteases for tanneries .this gives to the tanneries a number of options. like the tanneries can opt to reduce the consumption of i, the sulphide and lime up to 40% of their requirements while maintaining the same liming time. Or they can shorten the liming time by at least half without hampering quality. Or to avoid the use of amines, which can be converted into carcinogenic compounds.

though The hair-burning process is used worldwide but hair-saving process (the hair is not dissolved but can be filtered out from the liming float )can be a better alternative, because

Eco- friendly, reduce the COD up to 50% and BOD up to 30% in waste water.

Delkodehair is a specific protease, which is being developed by Jagson to work on high alkaline pH conditions.

Lipases are a type of enzyme that hydrolyse fat outside and inside of the hides and skins structure in such a way so that the leather con no t be damaged. Once most of the natural fat has been removed, subsequent chemical treatments such as tanning, re-tanning and dyeing have a better effect.

The key factors of using lipases are