Leather and Footwear Journal

Volume 6, no 3

Recycling the Sub-products from the Leather Industryl
- Gabriela MACOVESCU¹, Mircea POPESCU², Antonio MIONE³
  - ¹INCDTP Division Leather and Footwear Research Institute (ICPI), Bucarest, RO, icpi@icpi.ro
  - ²INCUBUS SRL Bucharest, RO
  - ³ENEA Pisa Italy
  ABSTRACT. The leather industry processes raw hides by a large variety of procedures, which cannot prevent the insurance of large quantities of wastes. Different ways of using the wastes are known. The researches developed by the LEATHER BY PRODUCTS – project in the framework of the EUREKA program, have been oriented to identifying ecological treatments of raw hides’ wastes using the classical technologies and biotechnologies (enzymes or bacterial cultures). These wastes have been then used as by-products.
  
  KEY WORDS: leather industry, raw hides wastes hide
Vision on the Best Versions for the Manufacture of Leather Goods
- Marina MALCOCI¹, Voinea COCIU²
  - ¹Technical University Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
  - ²Technical University “G. Asachi” Iassy ,RO
  ABSTRACT. This paper is dealing with some different models with „utilities method”. This method asses the importance of one version in comparison with other ones, that is useful for the decision factor. The following criteria have been studied: master data, specific consumption for the external constituents and their number, number of operations, occupancy rate, and productive capacity.
  
  KEY WORDS: leather goods, criteria, specific consumption
Contribution on Curing Solid Film Process from Adhesive Solution
- Florentina HARNAGEA¹, Viorica ROŞCULEŢ²
  - ¹Technical University “G. Asachi” Iassy, RO
  - ²INCDTP Division Leather and Footwear Research Institute (ICPI), Bucharest , RO
  ABSTRACT. This paper present the research results regarding the curing solid film process from adhesive solutions, by removing the solvent from the adhesives currently used in the footwear industry for soles bonding: polychloroprene and polyurethane adhesives.
  
  KEY WORDS: adhesives, footwear industry, curing film process