Kalahari Skins & Hides
Hides & Skins Processors
Southern Africa's trusted source for dry-salted and wet-salted hides and skins. We preserve, process, and supply to the global leather industry with consistency you can count on — direct from Botswana's cattle heartland.
Hides are thoroughly cleaned, stretched, and packed with high-grade salt to draw out moisture. Dry-salted hides offer excellent shelf life and are ideal for long-haul export to tanneries worldwide.
Fresh hides are immersed in brine or hand-packed with wet salt to achieve rapid, even preservation. Preferred for shorter shipping windows and customers requiring a more pliable hide on arrival.
Botswana's FMD-free zones and renowned Tswana cattle produce hides of exceptional quality. We source from registered abattoirs, ensuring traceability from slaughter to shipment.
Goat and sheep skins processed under the same rigorous standards as our cattle hides — sorted by grade, salted, and bundled to buyer specifications for the glove, garment, and footwear industries.
Every hide is graded against international standards — checking for grain damage, holes, brand marks, and parasitic scarring. Buyers receive consistent, accurately graded consignments.
We handle all documentation — veterinary health certificates, phytosanitary clearance, and customs paperwork — ensuring your consignment moves from our facility to your port without delay.
Hides and skins are collected from registered abattoirs and slaughter facilities across the southern district — logged, weighed, and inspected on arrival at our facility.
Excess flesh and fat are removed by hand to prevent putrefaction and to ensure the salt penetrates the full thickness of the hide evenly.
High-purity salt is applied generously — either packed dry for dry-salt curing, or dissolved in brine for wet-salt processing — then left to cure for the prescribed time.
Cured hides are inspected, graded by quality class, and stacked by lot — ready for counting, weighing, and baling to buyer specification.
Export documents — including veterinary certificates, BURS customs clearance, and phytosanitary permits — are prepared in full before dispatch.
Consignments are loaded and transported to Beit Bridge, Tlokweng, or directly to Durban port — with full tracking and communication throughout the journey.
Botswana has been the beating heart of southern Africa's beef industry for generations — home to some of the continent's most established abattoir complexes and a livestock trade that stretches across the entire country.
Kalahari Skins & Hides was founded to capture the value of every animal that passes through this town's gates. We work closely with abattoir operators, livestock traders, and international buyers to ensure that hides and skins are preserved to the highest standard and reach the global leather market in prime condition.
Our team combines deep local knowledge with technical expertise in salt preservation — delivering product you can trust, on time and to grade.
We apply international hide grading criteria at every stage. Buyers receive accurately described, consistently graded product because we sort honestly and communicate clearly.
No significant defects. Clean grain, no brand holes, minimal parasitic scarring. Preferred by top-tier tanneries for full-grain leather.
Minor defects in non-critical areas. Suitable for corrected-grain and split leather applications.
Visible brand marks, holes, or grain damage. Valued for industrial leather, felt underlays, and gelatine production.
Each consignment is logged by source abattoir, date of slaughter, and cure date — giving tanneries a full paper trail from farm to factory.
We use only high-purity sodium chloride meeting the moisture and granule standards required for effective bacteriostatic preservation.
All hides are sourced from BAFIS-registered facilities and accompanied by official veterinary health certificates for import compliance.
Send us your product requirements — species, curing method, grade, and volume — and we will respond with availability and pricing within 24 hours.