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At a tannery, the raw animal hide goes through a series of chemical and mechanical treatments to remove hair, fat and flesh before a tanning agent is added to the hide to prevent it from decaying.—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025 Additionally, 90 percent of the firm’s footwear leather finishing tanneries were audited by the Leather Working Group.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025 To top it off, the interior is decked out in red leather from the same tanneries used by the marque.—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2025 In the United States, the middle layer of agriculture — small to mid-sized processors, tanneries, and aggregators — has withered under decades of globalization.—Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tannery
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