Our company
Kenny Co., Ltd. is a tanner with a manufacturing plant in Malacca, Malaysia.
A tanner is a company involved in leather manufacturing that tans leather that can be taken from the epidermis of animals into leather that is used as a product on a daily basis.
The original animal skin will rot if left as it is, so chemicals are used to alter the skin so that it does not rot. Through this process, the "skin" becomes "leather".
This process is called "tanning", or "Tan" in English, and the companies and people involved in it
Tanner is called "Tanner".
Introduction of the process (until leather products are made)
⒈ Arrival of raw skins (pickles)
Raw skins are imported mainly from the Middle East and Africa in a salted state called pickle.
They are sorted by grade, thickness, and usage.
2. Rehydration and chrome tanning in the drum process
Raw hides, a large amount of water, and chemicals are placed in a rotating mechanical device called a drum, which is shaped like a barrel.
It is washed with water, degreased, and chrome tanned using chemicals to make the leather wet blue. Wet blue is a pale blue leather dyed with the tanning agent chromium. Has heat resistance and elasticity.
3. Shaving
In order to make the thickness of the leather uniform, the flesh side (back side) of the wet blue is shaved by a machine.
4. Retanning, fatliquoring and dyeing in the drum process
The leather is put back into the drum and re-tanned to improve its texture and dyeability, oil is added to soften the leather, and dyeing is performed using coloring agents.
5. Drying process
Remove the moisture from the leather that still contains a lot of moisture with a setter and stretch it at the same time.
Then hang it on a hanger to dry naturally.
6.
After drying, the leather is softened. The leather is placed in a dry drum and rotated.
The leather fibers are loosened and softened.
7. Staking
The process of kneading the dried leather to make it more flexible. Also called spatula.
8.
Toggle up on a steel plate, laying the leather flat and stretching it in all directions to make it bigger and lighter.
9. Artisan grade selection
A craftsman carefully checks the quality (scratches on the silver surface, color, thickness, feeling) one by one.
Depending on the condition of the leather, it will be sorted into each grade.
10. From weighing to packing to shipping
The sorted leather is flattened so that it does not wrinkle, and then passed through a machine for weighing.
It is then packaged and shipped to each customer.
