Tiger Imports Environmental Overview
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Tiger Imports is committed to the sustainability of the natural world in which we live:

• Our tanneries adhere to stringent manufacturing processes. They are ISO 9000 and ISO 14001 certified.
• Our tanneries are located in northern Italy, thus they comply with strict EU pollution mandates.
• Our tanneries use water based aniline dyes.
• Each tannery has a water recycling facility in use on the grounds.
• Our raw material is a byproduct of the beef and dairy industry. No cow is ever harvested for the pelt.
• Our NC facility represents the reclamation of a depressed property. We renovated an older warehouse in a transitional part of town. Tiger Imports was among the first companies less than five years old in Greensboro to move into the South Elm district.
  
  ‘Green’ is not a marketing buzzword for us; it is the way we do business.
  
  Tiger Imports Environmental Details
• All Tiger Imports Leather finishes are water-soluble.
• All finishes used emit well below the allowable VOC (volatile organic content) as established by they EPA.
• Pigments contain no metals.
• Tiger Imports leather strictly adheres to all EPA & Euro Zone guidelines and government regulations.
• Scrap leather is recycled into small leather goods.\
• Scrap hides are reconstituted into other products.
• The atmospheric emissions of our tanneries are controlled in order to comply with the limits established by the regulations in force.
• There is a chemical-physical purification plant performing a pre-treatment of the waste waters before re-introducing them into the management system. The installed purification systems and the used plants are subject to a periodical preventive maintenance schedule in order to ensure proper functioning.
• Our tannery’s laboratory constantly controls waste water to ensure the compliance with limits in force, but above all, the tannery constantly seeks to analyze and achieve improvements that result in reduced environmental impact.
• There is a rainwater purification plant granting the control for each possible source of pollution of the water table.
• Our tannery , in order to protect the quality of its own product, has always committed itself to inspect any material first purchased, then several phases of its own industrial process (monitoring it from the managerial and from the technical point of view), but above all, any single manufactured hide. In order to perform suitable QC, since 1996 there is an internal chemical/physical laboratory that recently has been ICEC/TS 406 certified.
• The tannery inspects both the compliance of the hides with regulations in force related to chemicals and the compliance with the quality levels provided for by regulations in this sector. All outgoing goods are tested according to the strict protocols of the QC.
• The “made in Italy” leather is a warranty for the consumer to purchase a top grade product free of chemicals harmful to the health, but, above all, a product compatible wit the social and environmental equity.
• Always caring for the welfare of its own customers, our tannery constantly devotes itself to the R&D in order to reduce the presence of chemicals in it manufacturing processes. In particular, by eliminating all solvent-based products in its finishing process, it manufactures a natural product.
  
  Technical Certifications
• Directive 2003/53/CE nonylphenol/ ethoxy nonylphenol (< 0.1% in compound for
  leather production)
• Directive 2002/61/CE and D.M. 12.03.03 azo-dyes (aromatic amine, <30 ppm amine relase)
• Directive 2003/3/CE and D.M. 17.10.03 azo-dyes (blue navy, <30 ppm amine relase)
• Directive 2002/62/CE and D.M. 11.02.03 organic-stannice compounds (TBT, MBT, DBT, < detection limit)
• Directive 2005/84/CE phthalic compounds (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP, DNOP, <0.1%)
• Directive 2003/11/CE and Regulation 2455/92 antiflame (TEPA, TRIS, PBB, penta-octa-deca BDE, absent)
• Directive 2003/2/CE and D.M. 17.10.03 arsenic (absent)
• Directive 1999/51/CE pentachlorophenol (<0.1% in compound for leather production)
• LMBG 1992 pentachlorophenol (<5 ppm)
• Chemikalien Verbotsverordnung May 2003 chromium VI (<5 ppm)
• Chemikalien Verbotsverordnung May 2003 formaldehyde (150 ppm)
• Directive 2002/45/CE and D.M. 17.10.03 chlorine paraffins (C10-C13, <1% in
  compound for leather production)
• Rec. 98/485/CE and Com. Dec. 815/1999 PVC (absent)
• Directive 2003/36/CE carcinogenic substances (absent)
• D.P.R. 10/09/82 n. 904 nickel (extractable Ni < 0.5 ug/cm2/week)
• Decision 2002/231/CE zinc (absent)
• Decision 2002/231/CE, Directive 2002/95/CE and Part 1303, Title 16, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 2- Consumer Products Safety Commission of U.S.A. cadmium, lead (absent)
• Directive 2002/95/CE mercury (absent)
• Decision 2002/231/CE tetrachlorophenol (TeCP, < 5 ppm)
  The respect of the limits set up from the European Community.