Prepared for Exotic Crocodile Leather at Your Door Step?

Crocodile skins have been generating a million dollar business due to their exotic leather. They provide edible range of products for royal family's delights.

The leather of crocodiles are owners pride. The touch of its leather gives feeling of coziness and warmth and its color and texture is incomparable. Whichever may be the color of the leather it gears a sense of beauty and pride.Crocodile's leather can be bent to give it any shape. It is durable too. For example, at ebay there is a Crocodile item dating back to World War II

Crocodile Leather Industry

Crocodile leather industry is continuously emerging as a flourishing business. This century old business continues to dominate.. This Industry emerged in 1980 in Australia , and in 1988, there were nine exporters who were indulging in this trade importing leather to fifteen countries of Europe.

Australia has eighteen farms in Queensland, Northern Territory. Western Australia is a major exporter of crocodile leather Industry. High quality handbags, boots, belts, briefcases, and luggage are manufactured here. Australia owes all its credit to Australian saltwater crocodile, which produces finest quality skin among all the crocodilians in the world.

The crocodile leather products are produced from farms in the countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species of World Fauna and Flora treaty (CITES) in 1973. This agreement enforces strict policies for capturing and processing crocodile skins.

Process of Skinning And Tanning Crocodile Leather

It takes a crocodile about 3 years to produce a skin that measures 40 cm across the body. Crocodile skin is extracted from two parts of its body, one from back, and other from its belly.

In the process, of skinning and tanning of Crocodile leather, they are cut to avoid nicking of skin and contact between carcass meat and the outer surface of skin. Carcass is then placed on the skinning table with head tied in a plastic bag to prevent contamination.

Lot of care is taken while cutting the crocodiles as this determines the quality of final product. Then meat and fat is removed from the skin with the help of water and after that the skin is drained in the shade for 30 minutes and it becomes ready for salting.

The rates of the skin are based on the width of the belly skin, scale pattern and the absence of abrasions or cuts to the skin.

Skins are salted and dried for two days to remove excess moisture to prevent spoilage from micro-organisms. Then skins are rolled with legs and flanks inside and stacked in Hessian-lined wax cartons or polystyrene cartons and finally kept inside cold room until sold. They are used to make crocodile leather tables and other products.

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