Established in 1994, it started its activities concentrating in the area of greatest expertise of its management which was the industrialization and marketing of bovine WETBLUE SPLITS (WB). Based on the exceptional worldwide network of partners, agents and representatives that Surpiel SA had at its disposal as member of the International Split Group, it could offer the Argentine market a totally new system of commercializing WB splits .

The Argentine leather industry traditionally sorted, trimmed, cut into croupons and prepared for exports their spilt productions individually, each tannery having their own split department.

Surpiel started to offer the tanners a new manner of commercializing their splits, based on their sale to Surpiel of the entire daily or weekly production as they emerged from their splitting machines (drops) without sorting, trimming and uncrouponed, with a significant staff reduction, more free space in their warehouses, avoiding stocks accumulation due to lack of orders, letters of credit, boat arrivals and very importantly guarantees the tanner a considerable reduction of his collection terms of split sales.

This new system, unknown in Argentina, allowed Surpiel to grow rapidly and to become very fast the largest splits trader in Argentina, all of this based on the very important cattle breeding and tanning infrastructure existent in the country.

Argentina with its 55 million heads of cattle and an annual kill of 13/14 million is without doubt one of the most important centers of production for bovine leather in the world. This was the main reason for situating Surpiel in Buenos Aires ,very specially having in mind that the whole annual 13/14 million hides are tanned locally with a big concentration around the city of Buenos Aires.


ACTIVITY. During the last few years, Surpiel has increased its operation considerably which includes today the following business areas:

- Purchase, industrialization, cutting into croupons, grading

and commercializing WB splits both for the domestic and foreign

markets.

- Purchase and industrial processing of lime splits which after being

tanned are sold in the domestic and foreign markets

- Trading of wet salted bovine hides.

- Trading of Wet Blue (WB) bovine hides of Argentine origin as

well as imported from other countries.

- Production in first class selected tanneries of semi finished ( crust)

and finished leathers, processed on bovine hides purchased by

Surpiel and supervised by an in-house technical team.

- Trading of WB and semifinished kid and goat skins .

LOCATION. Surpiel has modern warehouses covering 9.000 sq mt within a 17.000 sq mt park, with cooling chambers for the better conservation of wet salted hides, as well as ample installations for the stocking, selection, trimming and chemical treatment of split croupons.
The administrative offices and wharehoudes have a priviliged location since they are only 600 meters away from the Hurlingham/Moron exit

on the west side motorway (Autopista del Oeste) which runs between the city of Buenos Aires and Lujan.

Surpiel is placed:

20 minutes away from the center of Buenos Aires

25 minutes from the City airport ( Aeroparque)

30 minutes from the port of Buenos Aires

30 minutes from Ezeiza International airport

With easy access to all of the tanning sectors in the surroundings of BA and easy road connections to the motorways exiting the City towards the North, West and South.

PRODUCTS. Argentine splits are among the best in the world for the production of SUEDED and NUBUK Splits. Surpiel processes the different articles based on the highest quality European standards and at the same time can cater to specific requirements of each client.


Split Division.

Graded piece per piece, with one single tannage per container or with clearly identified pallets.



a) Chrome tanned (WB)

- Whole splits ( Drops) ex wetblue splitting

- Croupons ex wetblue splitting

- Heavy Croupons specially sorted for belts in thicknesses of 1.6 till

+ 2.4 mm

- Splits in WB ex lime splitting

- Shoulders

- Bellies



b) FOC ( free of chrome) Tannage. Pretanned with Glutaraldehide,

for the production of splits free of chrome.

- Whole splits (drops) FOC

- Croupons ex FOC splitting

- Heavy croupons FOC



Wet Blue Hides Division.

Surpiel's WB hide production is supervised by in-house skilled personnel or those belonging to our partners at the Split Group. Graded piece per piece they are offered as per our own parameters or those specifically requested by each customer.

- WB hides of Argentine origin

- WB hides of imported origin



Leather Division

Semifinished or crust leather for shoe and upholstery produced

under the supervision and control of our own skilled technicians.



Goatskin Division

- WB kid and goat skins for GRAIN use

- WB kid and goat skins for SUEDE use

- Semifinished or crust kid and goat skins





Lime trimmings Division

This

product properly selected and prepared is used to produce gelatin, casing, cosmetic products etc. Surpiel is certified

for the export of these products to various European countries.

Lime trimmings in green state, commercialized in the domestic

market or exported in air conditioned containers.

Salted trimmings prepared for export.


Management. Surpiel has a team of highly specialized people in all and every one of its areas. Most of them have been trained in the company itself, they are committed to the "achievement of excellence" of their products and the service rendered to the customers.