Currier
... A currier is a specialist in the leather processing industry. After the tanning process, the currier applies techniques of dressing, finishing and colouring to the tanned hide to ... make it strong, flexible and waterproof. The leather is stretched and burnished to produce ...
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Catskill State Park
... the Dutch, English, Irish and Germans; local industry included logging, bluestone quarrying, leather tanning, wintergreen and blueberry harvesting, trapping, fishing, and ... looking to extract tannin for use in tanning leather from the bark of the many ...
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Whitefield, Maine
... dug by hand, blossomed into a major industry, especially after World War II. From earliest ... wood products, such as barrels and shingles; leather tanning and shoe making. This diversification brought about ... railroad was always in financial trouble. The finishing blow was a derailment just below Whitefield ... became dairy or poultry farmers. The broiler industry collapsed in the 1970s. Only several ...
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Chromium   (translated from Spanish)
... to contribute resistance to corrosion and shining finishing. In aleaciones , for example, acero stainless that ... to obtain chromium or in alloys. In tanning of leather he is frequent to use the denominated "tanning to the chromium" in which hidroxisulfato of ... material and, the rest, in the chemical industry to obtain different compound from chromium. ...
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