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tanning

Treating animal skins to preserve them and make them into leather. In vegetable tanning, the prepared skins are soaked in tannic acid. Chrome tanning, which is much quicker, uses solutions of chromium salts.
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Byline: ANI Kanpur, Jan 17 (ANI): The leather tanning industry in Kanpur is going through a difficult time in the absence of sufficient orders due to the ongoing recession around the world.
Leather tanning industry in Kanpur hit by ongoing global recession by Asian News International
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Most leather tanning takes place in developing countries, where labour costs are low and environmental regulations lax.
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