Fujian Province Will Completely Eliminate Backward Small Leather Enterprises

October 9th, a few days ago,

There are more than 1000 enterprises above Designated Size in the leather products industry of Fujian province. The production areas are mainly distributed in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou and Putian.

In the first half of this year, the provincial people's Congress found that the pollution problem of leather making enterprises is prominent, and environmental protection management is not in place, which has a serious impact on the water environment in the area.

Among the 117 leather tanning enterprises involved in the investigation, 18 were suspected of violating the leather industry's industrial policies, 52 of them violated the EIA system, and 96 had violated three simultaneous systems. 9 of them were idle or not using water pollution treatment facilities without authorization, and 21 of the sewage effluent exceeded designated standards, and 4 of the privately owned underground pipes did not collect any chromium waste in accordance with the regulations.

In July this year, the general office of the provincial government issued a notice to strengthen the pollution prevention and control work in leather industry. It urged to resolutely eliminate backward production capacity, improve the access conditions for leather enterprises, strictly control the total amount of leather production and the total amount of pollutants discharged, promote the use of advanced production technology, enhance the production level of leather enterprises, implement pollution prevention measures, enhance the level of pollution prevention and control of leather enterprises, and strengthen the supervision of leather environment.

According to the duty request, the existing scale of production, with 30 thousand scale sheets / years, will be closed down immediately.

From January 1, 2012 onwards, shutting down production scale of 100 thousand mark / year leather enterprises.

From January 1, 2015 onwards, we will close down the scale of production and scale up below 300 thousand mark / year leather enterprises.

During the pition period, only wet skin and two layers of leather are allowed to be processed.

The existing drum for leather processing 2.8*2.5 m and below will be phased out by January 1, 2012.

The responsibility document also requires that the scale of newly built, expanded or rebuilt leather enterprises must reach 300 thousand mark per year or more, and must be arranged in the leather centralized control area. After discharge, the waste water discharged into the deep sea can not be discharged into rivers, rivers, lakes and reservoirs.

All leather enterprises must adopt cleaner production recommended by the state.