A.Smit en Zoon B.V., incorporated in 1983 in the Netherlands, is engaged in research, trade, and production of natural oils and fats, raw materials for the compound feed industry, leather aids, and synthetic tanning agents for the leather industry. The company deals in brands Smit, Codyeco, and Nera. It has traded in products such as textile lubricant preparations and preparations used for oil or grease treatment, synthetic organic tanning substances, and derivatives of hydrocarbons containing sulpho groups, their salts, and ethyl esters.