Recent statistics from Turkey appear to provide confirmation of the increase in demand for cattle hides from gelatine manufacturers.
Turkey now has six factories devoted to the production of gelatine from bovine sources. For some time, they have used lime split, bought from tanneries, as their main source of collagen. Increasingly, though, they are now sourcing whole hides.
New figures show that in the year from March 2024 to March 2025, Turkish gelatine manufacturers imported 2.2 million raw hides from Latin America and elsewhere.
These companies said that hide prices were now cheap enough for them to bypass tanneries as a source of their raw material. They reported paying between 30 and 50 US cents per kilo for the hides.
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