The Winter Of "Leather Capital": The New Regulation Of Environmental Protection Is Expected To Eliminate 45% Small Leather Enterprises.

In February 19th, "rain", the weather is still cold. Like this weather, the leather industry is also in the cold winter.

In " China leather and leather capital "Xinji City, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, the reporter saw that the international leather city passenger flow is scarce. At a glance, a long passage can not see a figure, many shops are closed, even the staff of the cashier have disappeared.

According to the statistics of China Federation of light industry, 2013 Leatherwear The total output of the garment industry has reached 62 million 297 thousand, an increase of 6.97% over the same period last year. The growth rate was basically the same as in 2012, but far below the growth rate of more than 20% in previous years.

"Bad news" followed. In March 1st, the "GB30486-2013" (hereinafter referred to as the "standards") for the leather and fur processing industry is about to be implemented. This new standard, known as "the most stringent" in history, will make it even more difficult for the already faltering leather enterprises to survive. The head of the technology standards division of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said in an interview with the media that about 45% of small businesses will face the fate of elimination.

　　 The empty Leather City

Xinji Leather City, located in downtown Xinji, was once the most bustling area in the city. Now, there is no glory in the past. In February 19th, the reporter saw at the scene that there were only 5 cars in the huge parking lot, and there were few pedestrians along the roadside. Although it has passed fifteen of the first month, more than 80% of the shops in the business hall remain closed.

Wen Qingquan, general manager of Hebei Yi duo Garments Co., Ltd. is doing business here from the day of the leather city construction. He told the newspaper reporter that in those days, the business hall was the hottest place in the whole market, and the customers continued every day. Easy to sell seven thousand or eight thousand leather garments in one year, and over 500 thousand yuan a year. But nowadays, it is common that no one comes to the house for ten days. Many shops simply close their doors for a long time until the peak season of 8 and September. Before that, each leather garment earns $80, and now it earns ten or twenty yuan at most and sometimes loses money. "Last year, I lost 200 thousand yuan." Wen Qingquan said.

Bad sales is related to rising prices. Most of the products here are sold to counties and villages in Henan and Shanxi, and the customers are more sensitive to prices. The rise in price is closely related to the rise in costs. The wages of workers have risen from 50 yuan to 80 yuan per piece, and the price of Mao collar has risen from 110 yuan to 170 yuan. Comprehensive (market area) calculation, with Nye overcome as an example, the cost of a garment has increased by 50-60 yuan.

The old market is gloomy. In order to transform and upgrade, in 2009, Xinji also built a new professional market of leather and fur, the largest international monomer city, Xinji international leather city. The total construction area is 360 thousand square meters, which was officially opened in 2012.

However, the new market has not been rid of the same fate as the old market.

Wu Zhanshun, the famous clothing manager in Xinji, said that last year, their annual sales volume dropped from 20 thousand to 6000, slipping more than 2/3, and now there are thousands of goods in the warehouse.

The leather cleaner also told reporters that the peak season for leather clothing is 8 months, 9 months, and three months in October. Before winter comes, people have to buy winter clothes. Last year's peak season, the International Leather City Management Committee also specially sent buses to Shandong and Henan to buy and send more than 60 cars a day. But now the cars on the parking lot are sparse and the buses are gone.

　　 Quiet leather area

Downstream sales are sluggish, and upstream manufacturing companies are also having a hard time.

The southeast suburb of Xinji is a tannery Industrial Zone, where leather tanning, nitrite dyeing and wool washing are all kinds of tanning enterprises. Their main task is to make leather from leather processes such as fester, tanning, dyeing and so on, which is the upper reaches of leather clothing processing enterprises.

In February 20th, the workshop of Dongxin Leather Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongxin") was quiet. Chairman Wei Ping Fu told reporters on the phone that the factory has not yet started.

The tannery company, which is separated from Dongxin one street, has started work, but there are only two or three workers in the workshop, and most of the equipment is in a state of suspension. A production manager told reporters that in previous years, after the seventh day, it was time to go to work. There were about 100 workers in the factory normally. Now, because there is not much life, only a dozen workers are guarding, the factory has not yet fully started, and the leaders are not there.

A staff member of the chairman's office of Zhuo Xin tannery Co., Ltd., told reporters that last year, their annual sales volume dropped from 20 thousand to 10 thousand, and the factory repeatedly stopped working because of no work.

There are several warehouses on the west side of the tanning area. In February 20th, the reporter came to one of the famous fur shops. A Xinjiang businessman who was storing goods here told reporters that about 40% of Xinjiang's sheepskin would be sold to Xinji, which was not affected by tannery business. After October last year, the price of sheepskin also declined. It used to be 80 yuan, and now nobody wants 50 yuan. And his goods were shipped before the Spring Festival. Because they did not talk with tanneries, they could not be sold at the end. Now they can only be temporarily stored in warehouses.

　　 New standards to be implemented

Whether it is leather clothing factory, leather goods factory or leather factory, in the face of reporters' interviews, most of them expressed reluctance to withdraw from the industry and will continue to insist on it. And the new environmental standards to be implemented may become the last straw to overcome the camels.

The standard stipulates the discharge limits, monitoring and monitoring requirements of tanning and fur processing enterprises, and focuses on controlling the indicators of total pollutants such as total nitrogen and chloride ions. After the implementation of the new standard, it is estimated that the annual reduction rate of COD and ammonia nitrogen emissions in leather industry can reach 57.2% and 67.4% respectively.

The director of science and Technology Standards Department of the Ministry of environmental protection, in an interview with the media, said that the new standard has increased the entry threshold of the industry, and will urge a group of enterprises that are backward in production equipment, low in technological level, imperfect in environmental pollution control facilities, and withdraw from the market in small and weak enterprises. It is estimated that about 10% of the leading enterprises (above 200 thousand sheets of cattle hide or more) need to further strengthen environmental management and upgrade some of the links. About 45% of the medium enterprises (above 50 thousand mark sheets and cattle hide) need upgrading and upgrading, and some enterprises with difficulties in upgrading and upgrading will face the pressure of elimination; and about 45% of the small enterprises (below 50 thousand scales of paper and cattle hide) will face the fate of elimination.

China is the world's largest producer of leather products, and leather products export ranks first in the light industry sector for many years. However, the leather industry has a large volume of sewage and complex sewage components. In 2012, the environmental statistics annual report shows that the total chromium emissions of leather, fur, feathers and their products and footwear industry are about 74 tons, ranking second in all industries, accounting for 39.2%.

Villagers in the village of SAMA Ying, who are next to the tannery area, have a direct feeling about this. A villager complained that the sewage from the factory was directly discharged into the river, and the villagers did not dare to use the river to irrigate the land. In addition, the thick smell is also unbearable.

Reporters in February 20th Xinji The tannery saw that the sewage in the sewer was black with ash, and the area with large discharge would overflow, full of streets and precipitated ash and white floc on the streets. The air was filled with salty taste. When approaching the sewer, it would smell thick, smelly eggs, which was disgusting.

In response to these pollutions, what did the local environmental protection bureau do? In February 20th, the reporter went to the Xinji Environmental Protection Bureau and saw the notice of the Hebei provincial Environmental Protection Office on cracking down on the scope of environmental pollution violations. A staff member at the office said that today, Xinji is holding two local conferences, and the important leaders of the environmental protection bureau have attended the meeting. No one can be interviewed.

Public information shows that in 2013 9-12, Xinji has launched illegal sewage remediation enterprises to protect the public health and environmental protection special action, crack down on "fifteen small" environmental violations and environmental pollution hazards investigation, and in the 18 townships (parks) 344 administrative villages to establish "horizontal to vertical," in the end of the grid environmental supervision system.

Zhuo Xin's staff also told reporters that the tannery area built sewage treatment plants in 2003. Every tanning enterprise's sewage will be treated through sewers to the sewage treatment plant. Because of the increasing number of factories and sewage treatment, the tannery area is also planning to require the tanning enterprises to purchase sewage treatment equipment by themselves. Large enterprises should have every household, and small businesses can share 2-3 sets.

During the interview, it was rumoured that the tannery area should be shut down in February 25th to carry out environmental inspection. Nowadays, environmental protection requirements have increasingly affected the production of leather industry and made the already difficult "leather capital" worse.