International Footwear Technology Conference: Revealing New Challenges For China'S Footwear Industry

When the influence of < p > China a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > shoes "/a" industry continues to expand, the event was held in China for the first time, which has milestone practical significance and far-reaching historical significance for China's footwear industry.

As the international shoe industry exchanges more and more frequently, this event brings together the world's top experts, guiding enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities with cutting-edge technology, and seeking new opportunities for the development of footwear industry.

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< p > UITIC chairman Mo Hanyi said that the theme of the conference was selected as "social responsibility: the challenges facing the footwear industry". This is the first time that similar meetings have discussed social responsibility related to ISO 26000 at the international level.

As the host of this conference, China itself is a powerful signal for the global footwear industry to think about social responsibility.

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< p > the international footwear industry technology conference was held in China for the first time. The organizer of the conference was deeply honored by the director of China's < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > "leather /a" association.

As one of the most important shoe processing centers and consumer markets in the world, the selection of the general assembly in China is timely and timely.

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< p > for the convening of the conference, Liu Fulin, President of Specialized Committee, China Leather Association shoes shoes, said that when the global shoe industry is facing a shuffle and pformation, the elite at home and abroad will be gathered here, which will lead the global footwear industry to a new height.

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< p > 1-9 months this year, China's economy has steadily increased, and production, consumption and exports have been improving as a whole.

Wang Shicheng, vice president and Secretary General of China Light Industry Federation, said that leather industry plays an important role in light industry. In the first three quarters of this year, the profit and export growth of leather industry were higher than that of the same period. The growth rate of import and export is expected to be around 10% in the whole year.

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< p > as a member of the world footwear industry, the new world group enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad.

As the exclusive sponsor of the conference, they hope to contribute to the industry in order to promote the exchange of international colleagues and harvest new scientific and technological information.

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< p > around the theme of "social responsibility: challenges facing the footwear industry", 26 experts from more than 10 countries in the world (21 from overseas) delivered speeches, 3 keynote speeches, respectively, on social responsibility, world footwear industry and Chinese footwear industry. 24 keynote speeches were divided into 5 stages: product innovation, process innovation, work environment and human resources, consumer and customer, business practice and social responsibility fulfillment, and 13 post papers were displayed.

The event attracted more than 300 delegates from around the world, including 1/3 from overseas.

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< p > for social responsibility, Florian Beranek, chief consultant of UNIDO, has mentioned many key words: market, responsibility, culture, value, standard, innovation and so on, but its ultimate direction is human beings themselves.

He put forward seven principles of social responsibility, and pointed out that the consensus of stakeholders in culture, value and common sense is conducive to the fulfilment of social responsibility.

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< p > Su Chaoying, director of China Leather Association, said that in the 1-8 month of this year, China exported 7 billion 100 million pairs of shoes and 30 billion 800 million US dollars, including 550 million pairs of leather shoes and 7 billion 500 million US dollars. Shoes imported 36 million 800 thousand pairs, 1 billion 100 million US dollars, of which leather shoes imported 15 million 520 thousand pairs, 780 million dollars.

In the next five years, the development of China's leather and footwear industry will shift from quantity expansion to quality and efficiency.

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< p > the world shoe industry has been slowing down after 08 years of financial crisis, the European Union has been hit hard, and the United States has gradually recovered, and China is also unable to do its best.

Peter, an American expert, has analyzed some emerging markets, such as Vietnam, India, Ethiopia and Latin America.

Faced with internal and external challenges, China's position in the world shoe industry is hard to waver because of its perfect industrial chain and other advantages.

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< p > Federico Brugnoli from Italy explains the application of EDP in footwear industry: data integration, eco labelling and design tools.

At present, there are 36 kinds of environmentally friendly labels applicable to footwear, and only 8% of them are specific to the footwear industry's environmental challenges.

In this regard, he focused on the LCR - life cycle assessment method, tracking all stages of the product for scientific analysis.

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< p > when it comes to the life cycle, people can not help asking how long a pair of shoes can wear. Mexico's Antonio M. Ruiz Mariscal determines the standard use through investigation; tests durability; carries out landfill analysis; studies the data of global footwear recycling, and concludes that the normal use period of a pair of shoes is 8.9 months.

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P Maria Portugal Jos Ferreira also focuses on the product life cycle and tracks greenhouse gas emissions.

She investigated and analyzed the energy consumption of various product types and production processes, and got equivalent carbon dioxide emissions. For example, NIKE in 2009, the emissions of carbon dioxide in a pair of shoes (including raw materials) amounted to 18.4 kg.

She also put forward many suggestions, for example, pportation is more low-carbon.

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< p > environmental protection concept, Gnanasundaram Saraswathy from India suggests that biodegradable polyurethane soles can be used. PU soles developed with 2% concentration of nano clay (NC) and titanium dioxide (TD) are not only better in physical properties than traditional materials, but also good in water solubility and biodegradability.

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< p > the development of electronic commerce also belongs to the category of low carbon economy. China's Li Shu introduced the virtual shoe testing system she studied.

The system uses three-dimensional vision principle or three-dimensional information of customer foot type to build a three-dimensional model of the two feet, and customers choose the right style through browsing the image.

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< p > when it comes to the production process, Sergio Dulio of Italy emphasizes the concept of lean production to solve the problem of energy consumption. He introduced the new generation of resource saving machinery and technology, and put forward the implementation roadmap for "green production". The three key words are green, clean and fine.

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Carl Henrik Flach in Germany, taking Isa Tan Tec in tanneries in Asia as an example, introduces some innovations in saving energy and water, reducing chemical consumption and waste, especially the implementation of manufacturing technology, water treatment, natural resource utilization and waste management.

They have pilot projects in Vietnam and China, and hope that they can be generalized.

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"P", also from the German Monika Richter, introduced the next generation of 3D virtual shoes. They collected 5000 foot type data in Germany and developed a new virtual method to design shoes and boots.

It is expected that this technology will be widely used for two years and is expected to be displayed at the next session.

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< p > the design of virtual shoes is still in its infancy. The application of robots has been formed.

The Michele Cantella of Italy introduced the use of humanoid robots and tripod robots. Each of the two has their own advantages, which can help operators to pick up and place leather shoes automatically, reduce the picking time and reduce the repetition and monotonous degree of workers, so as to make shoes adapt to the future industrial production rhythm.

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With the rapid development of science and technology, P Antonio Miralles of Spain has shown that computer technology has been able to support the entire value chain from mold to sale. It can not only provide an ultra realistic 3D model, simplify the prototype design process, but also optimize production mode and market distribution, so as to make the global shoe industry cooperation more smoothly.

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P, CTC ChristopheCUMIN of France, analyzes the company case.

CTC has worked out effective training methods, taking full account of 6 factors, such as teaching objectives, understanding, learning structure and procedures, assessment, specific product training, capacity + ability + agility, and gradually training through specialized trainers, venues and materials, which can improve workers' working ability and enthusiasm in a short time.

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< p > a survey of shoe enterprises in 24 European Union countries has found that skilled employees are the second biggest challenges facing enterprises. Therefore, the study of Enrique MONTIEL in Spain is mainly to solve two problems: how to use advanced technology to attract young people, motivate them to innovate technology, and how to pform and innovate traditional skills to suit the future development of footwear industry.

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< p > Steve Jesseph of the United States has worked in a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > clothing > /a > for many years. He hopes to learn from his experiences and lessons to help the footwear industry to increase profits and productivity.

Many enterprises still focus on productivity and profits. For the industry's criticism, enterprises should strengthen self-discipline. He mentioned the issue of the issuance of enterprise safety certificates, and proposed the corresponding international standards.

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< p > Sri Waskito of Indonesia introduces the training of workers in the country.

Indonesia's footwear industry is facing problems such as limited human resources and poor production skills, especially sewing technology.

To this end, India's leather, rubber and Plastics Center (CLRP) has launched a number of training programs involving a number of footwear varieties, and they have trained 289 shoe makers at a cost of 623 million rupees.

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< p > to reduce the damage of chemical substances and physical operations to workers during the shoemaking process, JohnHubbard of UK hopes to measure potential risks and determine which operational procedures are at risk so as to take precautionary measures to ensure workers' safety.

Of course, this needs not only to enhance workers' safety awareness, but also to strengthen external systems.

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"P", as consumers, is not necessarily a question of sustainable development.

Gerhard Nickolaus of Germany says that most customers and even manufacturers do not have a clear understanding of sustainable development. Rao is so. 90% of consumers are willing to pay higher prices for "sustainable commodities".

Fashion itself is in conflict with sustainable development. To deal with the relationship between the two, the development of footwear industry has a long way to go.

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The regulations of < p > REACH have been adjusted and perfected since the formal implementation in 2007, and enterprises should adapt themselves to the changing legislation and standards.

France's Jean-Claude CANNOT lists the list of key substances and testing standards that shoe companies need to control. For market pressure, product control of shoe companies should focus on human resources, process traceability and consumables.

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< p > based on footwear product inspection and standardized investigation, Qi Xiaoxia analyzed the current situation of China's footwear industry standards, consumer market, standard system and the status quo of international footwear standardization.

In the future, China will focus on the construction of technology teams, enhance the research on footwear comfort, improve the quality of standard repair, perfect the domestic standardization system, and strengthen international exchanges.

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< p > User Experience Design (UED) has few applications in the field of footwear product design. Speaker Wu Shuwen is concerned about the application of this concept in the design of sports shoes.

Drawing on the development and success stories of UED, he drew on the design concept of sketches and sports shoes according to the concept of UED, creating a new interaction between consumers and creating a positive interaction between the two.

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More than 80% of the adult foot deformities are caused by inappropriate shoes in childhood. The speech of Petr Hlavacek in Czech helps parents buy suitable shoes for their children.

Based on the "craber model" and the survey of 2000 children and their parents, he introduced the method of predicting the growth rate of children's feet, thereby reducing the rate of foot deformity.

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In order to create a century old brand, Anta has done its duty well in society. < p >

Zhang Tao explained the practice of Anta social responsibility, including the production of quality products, employment opportunities, improvement of employee benefits, performance feedback to shareholders, sponsorship of sports events, attention to public welfare activities, and many other aspects.

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< p > in the era of experiential economy, the income of suppliers depends on the experience of customers. How to coordinate the relationship between the two? Italy's Sergio Dulio, taking Atom group as an example, explains the "service oriented: customer supplier relationship innovation mode", and the seller's self praise mode is replaced by the buyer's will mode.

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< p > a pair of running shoes has to go through 360 processes to produce 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to 100 watts of light bulbs working for a week.

Belgium's Joyce CHAU is the representative of BSCI in China. She stressed that enterprises should enhance productivity, reduce working hours, improve human resources system and safety and health facilities to enhance social responsibility.

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Andreas Tepest, also known as P, also works in BSCI. They have examined 113 of the world's shoe supplier suppliers for Europe's largest footwear retailer DEICHMANN, 80% of which are Chinese shoe companies.

He believes that the implementation of voluntary social responsibility standards will help improve productivity, and harmonious labor relations will help enterprises successfully cope with the problem of labor shortage.

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At the welcome dinner, UITIC awarded the Mickael Spscked conference technical award, awarded the Cesar ORGILES Science Award, awarded the Marie Claude Management Award, and awarded the Jean Pierre Bidegain special nominations for Media Awards. The conference awarded the special support award to the Huajian group and the new Belle shoe industry (Shenzhen) Limited, granting the P technical and scientific Partnership Award, granting the technical cooperation Partner Award, awarding the award of the propaganda cooperation partner, granting the exclusive sponsorship award of the new times group, and awarding the award of the unit media partners such as ",", ",", "," and "the".

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At the end of the meeting, chairman UITIC praised the conference. "I am a very picky person. I can hardly say" I am satisfied ".

Because of the support of CLIA and new horizon group, our meeting was very successful.

UITIC will actively recruit new members, build innovation platforms, strengthen internal exchanges and closely contact other organizations. The next UITIC conference will be held in 2015.

CEC chairman Jean Pierre Renaudin introduced the CEC conference to be held in Mexico in 2014.

John HUBBARD said the Asia International Leather conference organized by IULTCS will be held in Japan in 2014, and the IULTCS global leather conference will be held in Brazil in 2015.

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After more than a year's careful preparation, P has presented a successful world shoe industry technology event to the world.

The participants praised the conference for its orderly organization and high efficiency. Apart from the speeches and exchanges during the conference, cocktail parties, factory visits, Pearl River night tours and welcome banquet activities were interlinked. Its comprehensive arrangements, personalized service and creative details became the window to display Chinese culture, and also provided opportunities for friends to make friends and enhance exchanges.

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< p > the success of the conference is the side confirmation of the flourishing development of China's footwear industry, while enhancing the international influence of the Chinese footwear industry, it also strengthens the exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign counterparts.

The elite of various countries used to examine the industrial chain along science and technology. The idea of innovation runs through the whole life cycle of the product and made important contributions to promoting the technological progress of the world shoe industry.

In response to the challenge of "social responsibility", the global shoe companies stimulate endogenous motivation, innovate inside and outside, and thus have a far-reaching impact on the future development of footwear industry.

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