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In the early 1980’s, Hulshof made a major commitment to protecting the environment of our community. Over the following 20+ years we made many costly changes to our processes and to our physical plant that resulted in a large reduction in the pollution that is inherent in the tanning industry. We are proud to say that we are one of the “GREENEST “ tanneries in operating Europe today. Some of our most important improvements during this period were:
- 1980: High efficient chrome tanning reducing the amount of chrome in our waste water.
- 1987: Wastewater treatment further cleaning the water that left our factory.
- 1990: Hair-saving liming.
- 1991: Start large-scale soil sanitation
- 1992: 98% Fresh hides rather than salted hides eliminating harmfull salt in our waste water.
- 1994: 97% Water bases finished eliminating solvent fumes from the air.
- 1995: Low-Sulphur liming.
- 2000: Computer-controlled chemical formulas insuring the minimum quantity of required chemicals are used.
- 2001: Construction of our hypermodern waste water treatment facility 2km outside of town.
There is still a lot of research being conducted regarding the improvement of our tanning-processes. Conclusion of the environment-section is that the increased technological complexity linked to an upgrading of the quality and a reduction of the labour costs makes tanning in the less developed countries not competitive anymore and is furthermore on environmental area irresponsible. |
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