FGL presents Liveround: bio-based innovation that you can touch

It is with the belief that true progress comes from the ability to connect the functionality of products and the sensations they manage to convey, that FGL International has come up with Liveround V. A next-generation amphoteric filler retanning biopolymer that contains about 25 percent carbon from biological sources derived from renewable raw materials. It is not just a new chemical solution, but a new way of interpreting the very concept of innovation in the tanning process. Liveround was designed to answer a clear challenge: How can we offer a solution that goes beyond traditional chemistry and transforms the end-product experience?
This is where Liveround stands out: not only does it combine several functions typical of polymers, but it does so with a future-oriented approach, incorporating significant bio-based content. This makes it possible to create leathers with a texture and feel unmatched by conventional methods. Hence the choice of name: the suffix “Live” recalls the concept of life, sensation and environmental impact; while “round” evokes the roundness that the product uniquely imparts to the leather.
Liveround V is a retanning agent specially designed for the treatment of cow hides or sheep skins with open and relaxed structure. Hides treated with Liveround V exhibit good fullness and roundness, with a firm and compact grain. Because of these properties, it is possible to partially or totally replace common phenolic and disulfonic synthetic tannins and plant extracts in wetblue and wetwhite retanning. Liveround V is completely free of formaldehyde and bisphenols and can be used in combination with other products in the “LIVE” range to produce items with a high bio-based content.