The present invention discloses a process for preparing a flame-retardant, lightfast, low fogging and degradable car seat leather wherein ammonia salt deliming is replaced with an ammonia free one, tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium sulfate and the flame-retardant starchy leather surfactant are used as the tanning agents to replace the conventional chrome tanning agent, hot water washing is used to reduce the fogging value of the seat leather, the flame-retardant performance is enhanced by combination of retanning, greasing and coating, the lightfast material is applied to enhance the lightfastness of the coating and the spray coating is replace with the roller coating to lower the consumption of the paints.

The present invention discloses a process for preparing a flame-retardant, lightfast, low fogging and degradable car seat leather wherein ammonia salt deliming is replaced with an ammonia free one, tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium sulfate and the flame-retardant starchy leather surfactant are used as the tanning agents to replace the conventional chrome tanning agent, hot water washing is used to reduce the fogging value of the seat leather, the flame-retardant performance is enhanced by combination of retanning, greasing and coating, the lightfast material is applied to enhance the lightfastness of the coating and the spray coating is replace with the roller coating to lower the consumption of the paints.

A process for tanning leathers including a pre-tanning step and a tanning step is provided. In the pre-tanning step leathers are treated with a cationic active agent including a quaternized ester of a fatty acid and triethanolamine, or mixtures thereof and, subsequently, with an anionic active agent including tannins vegetable extracts and a natural or synthetic dispersant selected from the group consisting of lignosulfonates, distillation stillages, sulfonated disulfonic polymers, sulfonated naphthalene polymers or mixtures thereof, to obtain leathers with a shrinkage temperature of at least 65 C. The pre-tanning and tanning steps do not include treatment with aldehydes or aldehyde donor compounds and/or with metal salts.

A process for tanning leathers including a pre-tanning step and a tanning step is provided. In the pre-tanning step leathers are treated with a cationic active agent including a quaternized ester of a fatty acid and triethanolamine, or mixtures thereof and, subsequently, with an anionic active agent including tannins vegetable extracts and a natural or synthetic dispersant selected from the group consisting of lignosulfonates, distillation stillages, sulfonated disulfonic polymers, sulfonated naphthalene polymers or mixtures thereof, to obtain leathers with a shrinkage temperature of at least 65 C. The pre-tanning and tanning steps do not include treatment with aldehydes or aldehyde donor compounds and/or with metal salts.

The invention provides a process for tanning a substrate using at least one ionic liquid. The at least one ionic liquid can be used in at least one of the following tanning steps: tanning, re-tanning, preservation, liming, pickling, impregnation, lubrication, dyeing, fatliquoring or finishing.

The invention provides a process for tanning a substrate using at least one ionic liquid. The at least one ionic liquid can be used in at least one of the following tanning steps: tanning, re-tanning, preservation, liming, pickling, impregnation, lubrication, dyeing, fatliquoring or finishing.

There is provided a process for tanning animal hide comprising treating an animal hide with at least one tanning agent and exposing the treated hide to a dose of ionising radiation of from 1 to 500 kJ/kg wherein the ionising radiation is in the form of a charged particle beam.