Patent 7252687 was granted and assigned to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A process of combination tannage is disclosed whereby Zirconium salt is complexed with THP salt to produce wet pink leather without using any conventional dye. The resulting leathers exhibit a shrinkage temperature of more than 100° C., and other properties comparable to those of conventionally processed leathers.