An Unannounced Visit To Xinji Leather Workshop In Hebei: Sewage Crossflow &Nbsp; The Whole Village Is Stinks.

A secret visit to leather processing workshop

A secret visit to leather processing workshop

The largest leather city in the North

Leather City

More than 40 thousand the wholesale leather coat is only 7 thousand.

To mention leather, it has to be said that Xinji, Hebei, a famous country in Xinji leather, has been awarded the honorary title of "China leather and fur clothing capital" by the China Leather Industry Association.

Recently, reporters drove to Xinji and visited leather in Xinji.

Xinji leather city has a large area, there are thousands of stores, and sells all kinds of leather products. After visiting a dozen stores, reporters found that most of them were expensive, some up to tens of thousands of yuan.

Reporters wandered around a layer of fur shops, and were led by a salesman into a fur shop.

"Do you want to buy clothes or purchase? What kind of products do you want? We sell them directly, and the styles are very new. They are all imported fur."

The reporter grabbed a coat that looked very nice. He could not help tremble at the first sight. It was marked 41300 yuan.

"The price is only for reference. We supply the factory. The price can be discounted. This is a good one. We can give you eighty percent off, with a maximum of only more than 7000 yuan, and much more can be cheaper."

Sales staff said leather clothing has genuine leather and imitation leather. Imitation products are much lower in price. They look almost the same as the handle, but the price is only 1/10 of the real product.

Reporters put forward to see the imitation products, sales staff told reporters that imitation and genuine products are the same, if you look at the style payment directly take fake.

And frankly speaking, the company's genuine goods and fake goods are made together, the real goods are exported or sold to the rich, and the fake goods are sold to the public.

Claiming to be foreign goods

Reporters found that these highly priced fur and leather products, bargain customers can buy less than 80 percent off, or even lower.

Reporter asked a leather city clerk, she said, "although the price is very low, but it can not be sold at a loss, the lowest discount is also based on the cost price plus profits.

People who don't choose to buy fake products easily seem cheap and cheated.

"We are imported mink, imported from the United States."

"These are all made of Australian fur. After processing, they are exported to Europe and America."

"Our raw materials are imported from Finland."

The fur selling waiter will call his products a world famous brand. But after trying it out, reporters found that many so-called high-grade fur would be hairy. After repeated inquiries by reporters, they said fur was foreign, but the processing site was in Xinji, and there might be some problems that did not work well.

Unannounced visits to small workshops

The whole village is smelly with sewage.

There is a leather processing area in the outskirts of Xinji. There are dozens of workshops, forming a village.

In the afternoon of July 29th, reporters walked through the village for a few steps and then smelled of stink. After passing two rows of village houses, two leather factories facing the front were seen. Next to the leather factory was a sewage pond which was polluted to dark black and dirty. It covered about thirty or forty square meters. The color was so cloudy that it could not see clearly how deep it was, and the sewage in the pond was pungent and smelly.

On the edge of the pool is the vegetable garden that villagers have planted.

Local villagers told reporters that the winter is better. It's so hot now that the smell is even suffocating. Many people in the village can't stand the smell and move away.

Many young people in the village did not even want to go home after they went out.

A villager told reporters: "this year's situation is slightly better, but sometimes from these factories outside the sewage pool, after a long time will vomit, dizziness, throat discomfort."

Reporters watched the source of sewage near the pool for almost 10 minutes and felt a headache.

In addition to the waste water discharged from the two factories, the reporter found that there are at least a dozen factories in the village. Similar sewerage has almost every tens of meters, and some are also smelly with red, blue and froth.

The whole village is full of sewage which looks like ink. The smell is naturally self-evident.

Reporters chatted with an elderly villager Zhang master, he told reporters, "because leather enterprises continue to produce, produce a lot of sewage, factories in order to save the sewage near the excretion, directly into the underground.

There used to be several large ponds in the village, and now it has become a sewage pond.

The passers-by passed the nose quickly, and the villagers complained more about it.

The dermis is thrown directly on the ground, and the machine is mildew.

The waste water produced during the production of leather factories is smelly and stinky wherever they go. Some of these waste water directly infiltrate into the underground, causing drinking water in the village to be drinkable.

There is also part of the direct pollution of the air through evaporation, where villagers breathe all day with strong odor of air.

When a reporter asked a worker about the problem of waste water in a factory, he said that tanning needed a lot of water. Almost a ton of leather was needed to produce a hundred and fifty thousand tons of water. Such a large amount of leather manufacturing resulted in high cost of wastewater treatment. Many enterprises simply did not want to pay more for the cost of sewage treatment.

In the past, the environment here was even worse, and the villagers hardly came to the village to stand in the door.

Now it is a little better after being pformed.

At the door of a workshop, the reporter saw that the waste water had been discharged directly, and the workshop was directly open.

Several workers were busy processing leather. When a reporter entered the factory, a worker dropped his work and called the boss.

In the entire workshop, the rubbish was scattered everywhere, and the fur of the animals scattered all over the place. The finished leather was thrown to the ground directly.

What is even more surprising is that the machines are moldy and emit peculiar smell.

A piece of leather has been polished and bleached, but the plant environment is really bad.

"How many skins do you process every day?" "no, it's too much. It's dirty."

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All three products, the boss is very vigilant.

At the scene, the reporter saw that even the leftovers left from processing leather, the skin and hair were concentrated.

"What are you going to do with these leftovers?" "I don't know."

The workers were very cautious when they heard such questions from reporters.

Just then, the boss came over.

"What do you do?" "come over and see the quality of the leather."

"Come here, there's the workshop, and there's finished leather."

There are all kinds of leather piled up in the storeroom.

"What kind of clothes do you want? What to do?" "make clothes, make leather coats."

"These are all right. How much do you sell? The clothes factories use these skins. There is no problem at all."

"Let's take a look at the quality first."

The reporter saw that all leather products were "three no" products, according to the quality of a lot of grades.

Just then, the owner of the workshop saw the reporter walking around with his cell phone. He immediately began to suspect. "You don't look professional, do you want leather?" "we have just done this job. We don't know much about the market. Let's see it again."

With this, the reporter left the factory immediately.

In another small workshop, the scene is also unsightly. This family mainly does sheepskin.

The production plant does not allow outsiders to enter, but only to the finished factory.

But through the door of the factory building, a lot of leftovers were scattered in the workshop, and the rubbish was everywhere.

The boss of the factory was more arrogant. When he looked at the two goods, he said directly, "you have to wait 4 days. All the goods are ordered now. There are buyers already. You have to wait."

According to the regulations, leather processing workers need to declare that they have attained the required standard hours and obtained certificates of completion through the junior formal training of this occupation, and have been working in this occupation for more than 2 years.

There are also intermediate and advanced workers.

But most of the employees in small workshops are surrounding villagers, but the qualification certificate is not.

Here's more than 10 pieces of sheepskin.

On the road in the village was a sign, which said that all kinds of cheap leather were sold, and the reporter entered the factory with the sign.

Seeing people coming, people working in the yard looked up at the reporters with their heads up.

Several men were cleaning the sheepskin on the ground. There was blood everywhere. The air was filled with the smell of the top man.

The reporter wanted to be close to the workers who were working. A middle-aged woman immediately came over to hold the reporter and asked what the reporter was doing.

The reporter said that he had come to sell leather, and the woman looked carefully at the reporter. He was sure that the journalist did not take suspicious items in his hand. He told reporters that he could not walk around in the factory and brought reporters to the manager's office.

The manager surnamed Zhang, the reporter has not yet opened his mouth, he first asked reporters a lot of questions, especially vigilant.

Later, he told reporters that their sheep skins were basically genuine, but the shipment was very large. They must be delivered 5 days in advance. There is no stock in the company now.

The reporter went to another factory. The manager asked a 40 year old man to bring a reporter into the warehouse to see the product. The reporter came to a dark cottage with a wooden long shelf stacked with black leather, and the leather was thrown on the floor, stacked for over one meter, and the dust on the ground made a part of the leather gray.

Reporters tried with their hands, and found that the leather cortex was soft and dark.

The man told reporters, "almost 10 sheepskins make a fur coat. The price of leather here is not the same, the cheapest one is 9.5 yuan, the second is 10 yuan, and the most expensive one is 15 yuan.

These are finished products, and the semi-finished products can be cheaper. "

Reporters asked why the price of leather is so cheap, whether it is true, the man said that no matter what the true and false guarantee can be used, and claimed that the leather quality from them is absolutely not bad.

Profit margins are large and prices are arbitrary.

After coming out of the leather room, the reporter asked why he smelt so smelly in the factory. He said, "if you come into the leather products, don't think the place is dirty and smelly. Our factories here are all like this. It's not just our house."

"After the skin is removed from the animals and cleaned up, it must be washed with plenty of water. We have a huge volume of shipments, thousands of shipments a day, and countless water.

It's normal to have some dirty water. "

The reporter asked him that the prices of leather goods and clothes sold in the market were very high. When he made profits in this business, he said, "if this business is not profitable, there will not be so many factories around here, and there will be no international leather city."

The price of animal fur is not high, but after processing, the price of the factory sold to the factory has increased a lot. When the factory is reprocessed into a product, the price has turned over several times.

He told reporters that their company and several factories that produce leather goods are long-term cooperative relations. They send large quantities of leather every day. They can make hundreds of thousands of profits, plus small customers' profits.

At the same time, he told reporters that the leather they came out basically were real leather, that is, they looked very dirty when they were produced, and they might also be fake. After all, the profits of fake goods were even higher.

Leather is mainly made in leather factories, and they produce real leather and synthetic leather, and more profits are made in manufactures.

"A real coat, according to the normal price, the cost of leather is almost three thousand or four thousand yuan, plus all kinds of expenses, shopping malls and so on, how to sell more than five thousand or six thousand, this is still low-grade fur clothing, if it is even more expensive with fur.

So one thousand or two thousand of the leather garments outside are sure to be synthetic leather, leather clothing from hundreds to tens of thousands of people, the true and false can be seen from the price.

In the industry, scrap leather can be used to synthesize whole leather.

Reporters hit a car, taxi driver Hu said that he used to be a leather processing plant workers, later could not bear the smell of the factory quit, and opened a taxi.

His son wanted to do fur business after graduation, but he refused. Now his son works in a factory.

Speaking of why not to let his son do fur business, he said, "I have done this line, I know, this is really making money, but the water inside is very deep. If you want to make big money, you have to fake it. The price of leather is too high, people who buy it are less, others sell three thousand, and you sell five thousand, no one will buy it.

Profits will come out after counterfeiting, but after all, it is not a permanent solution. Sooner or later, these counterfeit leather processing plants will be investigated one day, which may lead to trouble.

He said that when he worked, he used the waste leather that he should throw away and collected it again, and then synthesized them into a piece of leather. They came out almost the same as the real leather, but the leather was not durable. Although the quality seemed to be all right, it was normal to have cracks for a long time.

"At present, the technology level is very high. In addition to making leather garments from waste leather, fur clothing is also made from artificial leather, and the fur coat made is even cheaper.

Dozens of leather wallets, one hundred or two hundred yuan leather bags and suitcases sold by many peddlers are made in this way, otherwise a leather wallet is at least three hundred and five hundred yuan.

"Making leather contains many raw materials, such as caustic soda, tannic acid, heavy metal, dyes and so on.

Dyes, tannins, and heavy metals are all toxic.

Most of the dyes are organic compounds containing nitrogen, which are carcinogenic.

The toxicity of heavy metals is irreversible, and has strong deposition in the human body, and also has a strong carcinogenic effect.

Genuine and fake leather is polished and brushed up. It can not be distinguished from the naked eye. People who do not know very well do not feel it through hand test. Some imitation is good, and the surface is really leather, so it can not be seen at all.

It's not easy to buy a real leather coat on the market.

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Related links, a look at two pieces of leather goods.

To observe the surface texture of leather, look at the pores and patterns of leather. In general, the surface gloss of leather is good, and natural, smooth and not easy to wrinkle, with natural pores and patterns on the surface.

Different types of leather have different pores and patterns. For example, the pores of pig skins are round and thick, and the three sides are arranged in a group, arranged in a triangle, with uneven surface. The pores of the cowhide are small, round, evenly distributed, smooth and smooth on the leather surface, and the sheepskin pores are flat, very clear and arranged in a fish scale.

A lot of well made imitation leather materials are very close to the real leather in appearance. Generally, it is difficult to distinguish true from false, but through careful observation and different identification methods, there is still a difference between the real leather and the genuine leather.

Look carefully on the pores of the skin. No pores are distributed naturally. The size, shape and distribution of the pores are very uniform. If you can see the bottom material or the interface, it is easier to distinguish.

Good leather material feel very plump, soft, full of extensibility and flexibility, squeeze skin will have folds, different skin feel different, such as pigskin and cowhide hard, so often used to do bags and shoes, and sheep skin is the softest, often used to make leather, leather skirts, and so on.

You can also pull a little bit of the leather to see if the skin's tear strength and toughness are good.

Imitation leather is not as comfortable and slippery as the genuine leather. It feels a little sticky.

Reporter's note does not include the "poison" of leather clothing.

In terms of environment, small tanneries and small workshops are sacrificed at the expense of the environment. The large amount of waste water produced is directly discharged into the water without treatment, causing serious pollution to the local water environment.

From a consumer's point of view, the leather coat priced at tens of thousands of dollars is out of here.

First, tanneries produce all kinds of leather, then they are pported to garment factories for deep processing.

In fact, the cost of many leather products is very low, even the leftovers can be recycled.

From the point of view of harm, the production of leather clothing should turn animal skin into leather that can be made. This link consumes a lot of energy and water, and requires the use of many toxic substances, including formaldehyde, coal tar, dyes and cyanide.

Tanned leather can not be biodegraded, and most leather tanned with chromium sulfate and other chromate salts to produce chromium containing waste.

Chromate can invade the human body through digestive tract, respiratory tract and skin, causing ulcers, allergies, inflammation and other symptoms. Long-term exposure to chromium salt can cause chronic poisoning.