Tanneries and several textile ...
Published by Imre Pascik, Founder and Managing Director at LEVAPOR GmbH and BIOFILM-TECH GmbH
Tanneries and several textile finishing sites have quite high water consumption and use primarly non or slowly degradable agents and auxiliaries. Tanneries use also toxic Sulfides, making Things more complicated. Chromium can be today replaced by less harmful tanning agents. Biotreatment has the lowest costs, but can´t achieve a complete treatment, so that oxidation methods are necessary for a better removal.