How is raw hide preserved?

Answer 1

After the hide is trimmed out from the body of the cattle, the hide in raw form is first preserved by salt,before going to the Hat or Mandi from the slaughter house. Salt helps the hide from getting rotten atleast for a week.After that, the raw hides go through tanning process by basic chromium sulphate, lime etc. at the tannery. After tanning process, the raw hides are transformed to wet blue hides. Again,the wet blue hides are transformed to crust leather in semi finished form. The crust leathers finally becomes finished leathers which are the raw materials for leather goods.