Technology firm completes successful German trial

XEROS Technology Group has successfully completed a full scale trial of its technology with a Germany tannery as part of a major development programme.

The South Yorkshire business has developed a way of using polymer beads to significantly reduce the amount of water used by washing machines and is looking to exploit this in the commercial laundry sector, with early successes in the United States.

It has also entered into a multi-phase joint development agreement with Germany group LANXESS to use the same technology in the leather processing industry.

Mark Nichols, chief executive of Xeros, said: “This is an important development which hails a step change in the sustainability of the leather processing industry.

“This successful trial provides encouraging evidence of the momentum building across the group’s activities and demonstrates another application of our platform technology.”

The full scale trial, which was conducted by an independent tannery, has shown that material reductions in water, chemistry and effluent are achievable by using Xeros’ technology in the retanning and dyeing phase of leather processing.

When Xeros’ technology was applied to this phase of the process, the water used and the effluent generated were reduced by over 50%.