RECLAIMING LEATHER
A MELBOURNE FACTORY
SCRAP NOW BEING USED
Australia's waste leather is to be reclaimed at a factory being established. in Melbourne, and; equipped with expensive imported machinery. Hitherto, more than 20 per cent of leather produced in 'Australia lias been wasted and eventually burned. Now many thousands of pounds' worth will be saved. Scrap will come from boot factories:, and will be made into leather board, previously imported at £100 a ton, to stiffen toecaps and heels. Tn tl|i pulping process to be used, tlic leather will be, impregnated with flax fibre, which itself is salvaged. Each year :5,000,000 pairs of boots arc made for the forces, and civilian consumption is. 1 .'{,000,000 pairs. Recently 1,000,000 pairs were sent to hndia. A Melbourne # firm salvages 20 ; 000 recording discs a year and recovers 90 per cent of the butyl acetate coating. Air from a sealed room is drawn off and put through a Ileath Robinson process which makes it yield up the b.a. in the smell which previously annoyed the neighbours. And in a country factory which makes paper pulp they trap the. .smoke and make it disgorge 80 tons of chemical a month.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 3
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196RECLAIMING LEATHER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 3
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