Schill + Seilacher GmbH develops and manufactures specialty chemicals for leather, textiles, chemical fibers, paper, cosmetics and hygiene. It provides leather chemicals that include leather softeners, beamhouse, fatliquoring, tanning, retanning, waterproofing, and flameretarding for the production of leather for use in aircraft, automobile, and furniture industries; and chemicals for refining textiles cotton, wool, silk, viscose, polyester, polyamide, polyacryllic, polyolefines, blended fibres, and fiber glass. The company was founded by Christoph Seilacher and Karl Schill in 1877 and is headquartered in Boblingen, Germany.