chrome leather
chrome-tanned leather

Waste waters from Chrome leather companies situated on western side mixes in the lake.

Chrome leather: leather which is tanned solely with chromium salts.

Once empty land owned by the Chrome Leather Company, it was sold to builders and the entire land has been developed.

But, still you can find the traces of Chrome Leathers (it's name board) when you walk through Works Shop road.

The Chrome Leather Company was established in this area in 1912 by European merchant Alexander Chambers.

After his lifetime, the Chrome Leather Company was run by his wife Ida L. Chambers.

Early in the 1920s chrome leather upright belts were being made and consisted of many riveted leather belts placed upright.

At the beginning of the 1940s, a patent was registered under the Extremultus brand for a multi-layer flat belt made of nylon and chrome leather.

Earlier the town was the home of Chrome Leathers so the name chrome and pettai (Tamil: பேட்டை in Tamil means 'a place').

Ammonium bicarbonate is still widely used in the plastic and rubber industry, in the manufacture of ceramics, in chrome leather tanning, and for the synthesis of catalysts.

She became the sole owner of the Chrome Leather Company and its properties in 1965 through an Order and Decree passed by the Honourable Court, Madras.

Development of New Colony and the auction of residential lots in the early 1950 s, by the Chrome Leather Company, led to rapid residential and commercial development of the Chromepet area.

Today the lands and properties of Chrome Leather Company belong to the late Ida L. Chambers, and most of the land to the west of the railway station is owned by CLC.