ORIENT TECHNOLOGY
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JV Orient Technology LLC · Tannery · Nukus, Uzbekistan

Where Italian leather begins.

From raw material to finished leather, production follows Italian technology and meets LWG Silver certification standards. The plant was built from the ground up between 2010 and 2012 and supplies leather to clients worldwide.

The Nukus plant

LWG SilverURN JVL101 · audited supplier
Audit Category Craw hide → finished leather
Built 2010–2012a ground-up greenfield tannery
Chrome tannagecow · full grain & split

The process

One chain. Three products.

Leather leaves our line at three points — wet blue, crust, or finished. Everything before that point happens here in Nukus, inside one LWG-audited chain.

Hair-on cowhide, the raw material
Hair-on cowhide — the raw material

01

Raw hide

Cowhides from the region, salted, graded and weighed on intake. Karakalpakstan is cattle country — the raw material starts within reach of the plant.

The soaking and liming drum hall at Nukus
Soaking and liming drums — the wet end of the chain

02

Beamhouse

Soaking, liming, unhairing, fleshing, splitting. The hide is taken back to clean structure before a drop of tanning chemistry touches it.

Rows of timber tanning drums in the Nukus drum hall
The tanning drum hall

03

Tanning

Chrome tannage in timber drums the size of rooms. Two rows of them, running the width of the original 2012 hall.

A wet blue hide on the belt at the sammying line
Sammying — the first of the five wet-blue steps
Wet blue hides being graded and selected
Selection — grading each hide to its destination

04

Product № 1 — Wet Blue

Wet blue

Five steps: sammying, measuring, selection, splitting, then shaving. Selection is the one that matters most — this is where the destination of every hide is decided: out as wet blue, on to crust, or through to finished leather.

Stacked dyed leathers
Dyed leather, stacked

05

Retanning & dyeing

Retanned, dyed through and fatliquored to the article's recipe — where the character of the final leather is decided.

Grey-blue crust leather drawn over the milling roller
Crust at the milling line — 2020 footage

06

Product № 2 — Crust

Drying to crust

Vacuum plates, overhead rails, conditioning. Dried to crust, this is the article we export: the leather that comes back to the world as “Made in Italy.”

An operator handling finished black leather at the finishing line
The finishing line, Nukus

07

Finishing

Spray lines, roller coating, vacuum drying, embossing, milling — a complete Italian-built finishing chain under this roof.

Finished black full-grain leather
Finished black leather — full grain, pigmented

08

Product № 3 — Finished leather

Finished leather

Graded, measured and dispatched — finished leather for footwear, developed to the customer's standard.

The leather

Three ways to buy.

A wet blue hide laid out on the belt

Wet Blue

Chrome-tanned cowhide, sammyed and selected. Sold by selection, packed for onward tanning.

Grey-blue crust leather over the staking roller

Crust

Retanned, dyed and dried, ready for finishing — the article we deliver to customers worldwide.

Finished black leather

Finished leather

Finished for footwear — pigmented, embossed, milled. Full grain and split, developed to customer standard.

Full technical sheets — substance, selection, cuttings — ship with every sample.

What the leather becomes.

Our finished article is developed for footwear — uppers and linings, full grain and split, to the customer's substance and standard.

Black safety shoe in finished leather — pebble grain upper
Taupe suede clog mules
Black leather slip-on babouche

The equipment

An Italian finishing line, in Karakalpakstan.

The plant was built from the ground up in 2010–2012 and equipped through the finishing chain with Italian machinery — shaving, samming, carousel spray, roller coating, vacuum drying, embossing. The claim isn't decoration. It's on the nameplates.

Rizzi shaving machine nameplate with Italian tricolor
Wet-blue shaving line — 2020 footage
Gozzini hydraulic embossing press
Embossing press — 2020 footage
Operators loading hides at the vacuum drying line
The vacuum drying line

Responsibility

Certified — and checkable.

LWG SILVER

  • Leather Working Group audited supplier
  • URN JVL101
  • Audit Category C — raw hide to finished leather
  • Audited 05.09.2025 · valid to 04.09.2027

Verify us on the LWG supplier registry.

Download the certificate (PDF)

Traceability, stated plainly

Hide origin is 100% regional, as recorded in our LWG audit. Documented farm-level traceability is the next step on our roadmap — not a claim we make today.

Water & chemistry

Water use, effluent treatment and restricted-substance management are assessed under the LWG audit protocol, on a fixed re-audit cycle.

Documents, not adjectives

Every claim on this site traces to an audit record, a registry entry or a certificate. Your compliance team can have copies of all of it.

Interlocked barrier across a tanning drum bay, with floor markings
Every drum bay is barriered and interlocked — no access while the drum turns.
H2S zone signage on the beamhouse mezzanine
Gas-monitored zones are signed and detector-controlled across the wet end.

The consumer mark

NUKUSTAVRO

“Tavro” is the mark burned into a hide — the oldest proof of origin there is.

NUKUSTAVRO is our registered mark for footwear, clothing and headgear — certificate № MGU 66449, Nice Class 25, protected to 2035. The leather is already made in Nukus. The products that will carry its mark come next.

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The company

Built in Nukus. Aimed at the world.

JV Orient Technology LLC's tannery stands on the Nukus–Turtkul highway in the Republic of Karakalpakstan — cattle country on the old routes between Europe and Asia.

“To give the global market the opportunity to discover and appreciate the quality of leather from Uzbekistan.”
20,000wet blue hides per month
89jobs at the plant
3products off one audited production chain
The tanning drum hall, wide view
The drum hall, Nukus
The Orient Technology plant team outside the drum hall
The people who make it — the plant team, Nukus

Contact

Request a sample.

Tell us the article and where it's going. Samples ship with full technical documentation.

Commercial enquiries
commercial@orienttechnology.uz

Address
Nukus–Turtkul Highway 4/1, Nukus, Republic of Karakalpakstan, 230100, Uzbekistan

Instagram
@orient_technology_uz