Safety sheet . Safety sheet . Important information Save yourself frustration, faulty product, factory disasters and money, while becoming more successful, by reading this series of informative articles about biocides in the leather industry. For longer term treatment, load hides or skins into processing vessel with treatment solution and rotate for one hour. Dose rates are in the table below.
Amounts are percentages.
Use the following minimum doses. To hold freshly flayed hides for 24 hours under winter conditions, make up a solution of 2 kilograms of Tecmate 100 per tonne of float and hides together. Immerse the hides in this solution to fully wet them. To hold hides for three days under summer conditions, load them into a processor. Add 3 kilograms of Tecmate 100 plus 5 kilograms of boric acid for each tonne of hides and float together.