Pollutant Discharge Standards For Synthetic Leather Industry Will Be Upgraded

< p > > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/" > synthetic leather industry < /a > pollutant discharge standards will be upgraded, and the new standard is expected to be introduced in the year.

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< p > < strong > local environmental protection improvement first < /strong > /p >

< p > synthetic leather industry is a highly polluting industry. In order to better build "beautiful China", the emission standards of pollutants in the industry need to be upgraded.

Local pollution control of the synthetic leather industry will be preceded by national standards, for example, in some places in Zhejiang, environmental protection action has begun.

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< p > as early as January 23rd this year, the Wenzhou Municipal People's Government Office issued the "Wenzhou synthetic leather industry upgrading plan".

The paper proposes that the synthetic leather enterprises that are included in the regulation and upgrading will be completed and approved before the end of June 2014. The enterprises or production lines that have been shut down and limited production will be closed down and the production will be in place. The production line of synthetic leather enterprises in Longwan district (including hi tech Park) and Wenzhou economic and Technological Development Zone will be reduced by more than 30%.

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< p > document also proposed that before the end of December 2015, the Longwan district (including hi tech Park), Wenzhou economic and Technological Development Zone < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/" > synthetic leather enterprise < /a > production line was reduced by more than 50%; in the ambient air, the concentration of two methyl formamide (hereinafter referred to as DMF) was controlled within 0.2mg/m3, and the ambient air of synthetic leather enterprises had no stench; the synthetic leather industry was checked through the whole.

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< p > industry insiders say that the reason why Wenzhou's environmental protection operation is in the front is mainly because the local synthetic leather production capacity is more concentrated, and the voice of the masses is stronger. Enterprises also hope to reduce the starting rate, enhance the environmental protection cost and enhance the prosperity of the industry through environmental protection.

Public information shows that in May 10th, a total of more than 150 environmental law enforcement officers in the city of Wenzhou formed a mixed team of 8 counties (cities, districts) 101 synthetic leather enterprises to conduct a comprehensive "physical examination" inspection, suspected of illegal environmental enterprises will be placed on file for investigation.

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< p > data show that in addition to 14 of the 115 synthetic leather enterprises in Wenzhou, all of them were inspected and stopped. The law enforcement officers collected 97 samples from 59 production enterprises, and found 42 enterprises to stop production.

The local environmental protection department said that the key enterprises will be inspecting and will be dealt with strictly according to the final inspection results.

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< p > in addition to Wenzhou, in April this year, according to the general requirements of "shutting down and eliminating a batch, integrating into the park and upgrading a batch", all parts of Jiaxing city carried out the printing and dyeing, papermaking, a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > tannery < /a > and chemical industry's four major industries to upgrade and improve, and strive to eliminate backward products, technology and process equipment that did not meet the national industrial policy and energy saving and emission reduction requirements by the end of 2014.

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< p > < strong > supply limited to enhance industry prosperity < /strong > /p >

< p > analysts say many of the sub sectors of the chemical industry have excess capacity. By implementing more stringent environmental protection measures, they can quickly go to capacity and improve the profitability of the industry.

In glyphosate, printing and dyeing industries, this logic has been confirmed, and the synthetic leather industry is also expected to confirm this logic once again.

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< p > data show that artificial leather and synthetic leather products are the substitute materials of natural < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > leather < /a >, which are made up of two parts: leather cloth (woven cloth, non-woven fabric) and coating resin. According to the material and technology, they are divided into PVC synthetic leather, PU synthetic leather and superfine fiber PU synthetic leather.

PVC artificial leather, as the first generation of artificial leather, is added with plasticizer DOP and stabilizer containing heavy metals such as lead and cadmium. It is difficult to degrade. It is easy to cause pollution to the environment. It has been banned in developed countries, and is also gradually replaced by PU synthetic leather in our country.

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< p > at present, the synthetic leather market in the world is mainly made of PU synthetic leather, and the super fine PU synthetic leather with better performance is developing rapidly.

PU leather and microfiber PU leather need to use PU slurry as coating resin, PU slurry using DMF as solvent, and PU leather dry / wet process production process all use DMF, so DMF exhaust emissions become one of the main pollution in the industry.

This is also the reason for formulating special targets for DMF air concentration in Wenzhou remediation program.

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< p > brokerage analysts said that China's synthetic leather industry has a capacity surplus of at least 20%-30%. Downstream applications include decorative leather, < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > shoes < /a > leather, a target= "_blank", "_blank", "clothing", "leather", "luggage leather", "upholstery leather", "upholstery leather" and "ball leather".

Taking Wenzhou as an example, the total share of synthetic leather production in the whole country should be close to 50%, but the output is only 20% less than that of the whole country.

Some enterprises have shut down before environmental protection.

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< p > affected by overcapacity, the performance of related companies continued to decline.

According to Wind statistics, the 5 synthetic leather listed companies of Hexin share, double elephant share, Hua Fengchao fiber, Amway shares and the same large stock company in 2012, realized a net profit of 268 million 510 thousand yuan, down 13.28% from the same period last year. In the first quarter of 2013, the total net profit was 41 million 647 thousand yuan, down 18.07% from the same period last year.

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< p > analysts further pointed out that the profitability of Listed Companies in the future can be improved as expected, and we need to see the intensity of environmental remediation.

The production capacity of synthetic leather industry is not high, and the number of enterprises is huge. Comparatively speaking, the regulation is more difficult.

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< p > < strong > prospect of ecological synthetic leather > /strong > /p >

< p > in the process of environmental protection and elimination of backward production capacity, the pformation and upgrading of synthetic leather industry is continuing.

Feng Shujun, Deputy Secretary General of China Plastics Processing Industry Association, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com" > China Plastics Association < /a > artificial leather synthetic leather Committee, told the China Securities Journal reporter that in order to deal with increasingly stringent environmental protection constraints, enterprises are actively developing more environmentally friendly new products. Transformation and upgrading is a key point in the next stage of development of the industry.

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Less than 80% of the world's synthetic leather production capacity, however, the traditional oil-based synthetic leather will produce a lot of organic waste gas, waste water and hazardous waste, and the energy consumption will be greater. The synthetic leather products also have the defects of breathability, moisture permeability and toxicity. Therefore, the pformation and upgrading of China's synthetic leather industry is particularly important. P

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< p > waterborne synthetic leather made of waterborne resin is becoming the development direction of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com" > synthetic leather industry < /a >.

Water based eco synthetic leather uses water-borne resin instead of polluting oil solvent to avoid organic waste gas emissions, which has less impact on the environment and improves the quality of products.

In terms of finished products, because water-based eco synthetic leather has certain permeability and good hand feel, it is also non-toxic, so it represents the development direction of high-grade leather.

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< p > experts say that synthetic leather can turn from oiliness to wateriness, which is an opportunity for industrial pformation and upgrading.

The emergence of waterborne synthetic leather has injected new vitality into the synthetic leather industry and has broad prospects for future development.

It is understood that many synthetic leather enterprises have begun to explore the application of waterborne resin, and some enterprises have already built and put into production the water-based synthetic leather production line.

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< p > the special committee of China Plastics Association leather synthetic leather also said that in addition to water-based eco synthetic leather, ultra synthetic leather is also an ecological synthetic leather. This product is mainly used instead of genuine leather. Its quality is not very different. It is even better in some properties and is also a high-end product in synthetic leather.

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