Environmental Policy
"Guarantee the quality of our products and satisfaction of our customers! CBC uses responsible and environmentally friendly processes that comply with statutory requirements. We are continuously seeking to improve the use of natural resources; promoting awareness and preservation of the environment." For the management of our environmental policy, environmental indicators regarding energy consumption (electricity, wood and fossil fuels), water consumption, atmospheric emissions and effluent parameters have been set. Environmental audits are periodically performed and after the indicators are evaluated, improvement actions are defined.

Restricted Substances
Through periodical research conducted at its customers, CBC Couros has prepared and keeps a fully updated list of Restricted Substances that establish maximum levels for Chromium IV, Heavy Metals, PCP, TECP & TCP, Azo Dyes, Dimethylfumarate (DMFU), Total Lead and others. Our leather is periodically analyzed at selected and internationally certified laboratories, which ensure compliance with set restricted substance levels. Our policy for restricted substances is extended to our suppliers by requiring that the relevant certificate/affidavit be issued by them.

Traceability
CBC Couros applies a traceability system to its leathers using a procedure that defines all the necessary controls (origin documentation and production follow-up, marking each skin with a specific code, computerized system records, batch identification and others). These controls make possible to trace each skin processed at the tannery back to its very origin.

Wastermater Treatment Plant
Once being a conscious company, CBC Couros has a perfect waste water treatment, which meets the requirements of environmental agencies altogether.

Process:
- Grit and solids removal (screening);
- Primary Treatment
- Equalization Basin
- Polymer Addition
- Primary Settling
- Biological Treatment
- Secondary Settling

Discharge to the common industrial district plant sewerage; Organic matter removal.