The institute continued to provide its services to the Industry till 1974. PSIC felt a need for its re-organization in order to equip it with modern machinery and strengthen it with qualified manpower so that the latest production techniques and knowledge could be made available to the leather Industry which had been then attained high technological standards and had become an important foreign exchange earner for the country. By that time Pakistan had also switched over from the export of Raw Hides to export of Finished Leather.