Technique with high sustainability
Tuscan group is faithful to the Tuscan tanning tradition, but looks carefully to the environmental sustainability of its products. Vegetable tanning is a technique with high sustainability, made with natural products in the absence of chemical compounds and heavy metals.
Vegetable tanning
What are vegetable-tanned leathers
These are leathers tanned with natural elements, without the use of chemicals and heavy metals. This method of tanning has its roots in the ancient Tuscan tradition of tanning, handed down by the masters and always renewed thanks to technologies. The use of natural substances such as chestnut and mimosa bark, animal fats and amber stones for polishing allows the transformation from leather to hide in an absolutely natural and sustainable way. Moreover, the leathers themselves used for vegetable tanning come from cattle and sheep raised for the food industry, thus limiting the slaughter of animals.
The advantages of vegetable-tanned leather
The first advantage of vegetable-tanned leather is the characteristics obtained from the leather itself, in coloring, scent, and texture. The use of natural materials in fact enhances the qualities of the leather, maintains the natural color and a compact and durable leather, excellent for different types of processing. In addition, vegetable-based leather is appreciated by people with intolerances or allergies to particular chemical components or metals, which are completely absent in the processes that distinguish this type of tanning. Finally, it is also an environmentally sustainable process, both in terms of the disposal of industrial plants and the disposal of the leather itself once it reaches the end of its life cycle.
