beamhouse

[′bēm‚hau̇s]

(chemical engineering)

A place where the initial wet operations of tanning, involving soaking in water and solutions of alkali, are carried out.

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This Hazardous Substance Control (HSC) workshop is designed to cover the entire leather manufacturing process from raw material to finished leather with separate modules covering beamhouse, tanning, post-tanning and finishing.

Switzerland : SGS Launches New Hazardous Substance Control (HSC) Leather Workshop

With the correct beamhouse and wet blue processing and using fatliquor-free chemicals the waterproof performance can be optimized leading to savings in both time and costs.

Lanxess to showcase leather chemical products at India event

The leather chemicals market in the country is anticipated to grow on account of high demand for basic chemicals in beamhouse operations and increasing adoption of speciality chemicals in leather finishing.

beamhouse chemicals, wet-end chemicals and finishing chemicals.

India Leather Chemicals Market to Cross USD700 million by 2020 Says TechSci Research

Water conservation in beamhouse system and effluent treatment remained the main focus area.

BASF comes up with solutions for footwear leather industry

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Leather Chemicals Market - Trends & Forecasts to 2019 - New Study Released

As for the production of wastewater, over 80 percent of the organic pollution load in BOD terms emanates from the beamhouse (pretanning); much of this comes from degraded hide/skin and hair matter.

Toxic load of tannery industries situated in Kanpur

Named X-Green Crust Technology it further includes the enzymatic X-Zyme process for the beamhouse steps, developed together with Denmark-based Novozymes A/S, the global market leader in enzymes: using two microbially produced enzymes in soaking and liming considerably increase the quality of the hides, reduce the amount of waste and significantly improve the efficiency of the entire process.

China : Sustainable leather production with no compromises on quality

beamhouse, tanning and finishing, are expected to witness growing demand over the next five years.

India Leather Chemicals Market to Reach INR2,800 Crore by 2019, Says TechSci Research Report

BASF launched DryFast, its newest beamhouse process, on the market in 2014 which combines the advantages of a range of products to a solution that significantly reduces water, energy and process time for tanneries.

Germany,Singapore : BASF celebrates 125th anniversary of Leather Chemicals business

Green Leather Crust includes top innovations along the leather making process: the X-Zyme beamhouse technology, LANXESS wet white tanning system X-Tan as well as the recently launched X-Biomer biopolymers for the retanning process.