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What are casualty hides?

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Basically casualty hides are cattle hides not slightered, but from natural death.


Are these hides used for leather production?       
Normally yes. They will be graded after wet blue tanning. This is the first time that buyer can see the result of the GRAIN. Hides can have (but must not) have grain defects. These grain defected hides can be used for buffing, embossed and printed leathers.

One customer told me the following. Is it true?     
"Causalty hides have a called selection of C only and not A/B.
Please confirm this as nobody can accept this selection A/B for casualty hides."
What client said is WRONG !!! Because ........ yes he is right that casualty hides can be (but must not) of lower quality. With the description of “wet salted CASUALTY cattle hides” every buyer knows that these are casualty hides and no normal hides from regular slaughtherhouse killing. Our indicted selection with 80 % A, 20 % B is the same as for good regulary hides. That means of defects like holes, cuts ... = defects these are visual in that raw (wet salted) condition. Casualty hides can have grain defects, but this can be visual only after wet blue tanning process. But we sell in raw (wet salted) and not in wet blue.
For your further information:  Casualty hides are from animals that were NOT killed in slaughterhouse. These animals died on the pasture or in the stable of the farmer. Then the dead body comes next day or some hours later to a special slaughterhouse and remove the hides from the body by machine (= machine flayed). But animals were NOT killed in any slaughterhouse, but died on natural way at farmers place.
But also the prices in relation of regulary hides to casualty hides .... casualty hides are app. 30 – 50 % cheaper. So with the descrption of “wet salted CASUALTY cattle hides” each tanner knows what it is and what he can produce from such hides.


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