Bader: Business is hard to find
Published: 22nd May 2020
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA - Unfortunately orders on the automotive side are nonexistent, and with Brazilian TR1s being offered at 0.35US$/ft², even export orders on wet blues are hard to come by and to compete with.
The majority of the wet blue plants were wet salting during the lockdown phase with the prospect of being able to process the hides at a later stage.
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