Leather Industry Is Slowing Down, And Auto Leather Has Become A New Growth Point Against The Market.

On September 3rd, at the 2014 China International Leather Exhibition in Shanghai, the China Leather Association announced the economic data of China Leather Industry in 2014, 1-6.

Data show that China's leather industry imports growth significantly, exports blocked significantly, the overall growth rate of the industry slowed down, while the automobile tanning market, the growth rate is remarkable.

Why is China's leather industry slowing down? In the face of concerns and doubts about pollution control in the leather industry, what actions have been taken by China's leather industry in recent years? What are the new breakthroughs in environmental protection?

After more than 30 years

China's leather industry is responsible for the accumulation of foreign exchange for the country. The annual export earnings from billions of dollars to about 39000000000 dollars, ranking first in the light industry, leather industry has made great contributions to China's foreign exchange difficulties.

However, since the global economic crisis in 2008, the growth rate of China's leather industry has begun to slow down.

According to the latest data released by China Leather Association, in 2014 1-6, China's leather main industry exported 39 billion 720 million US dollars, the growth rate dropped 6.6%, imports 4 billion 450 million US dollars, and the growth rate accelerated 6.2%.

The import growth of the whole industry is significant, and exports are obviously blocked.

"The decline in exports and insufficient domestic demand" is the reason why Su Chaoying, chairman of the China Leather Association, gave an analysis of the slowdown in the leather industry in China.

He believes that in the context of the slow recovery of the global economy, many of China's fur products are mainly exported to Russia, Ukraine and other countries. The political turmoil in the relevant countries also has a certain impact on the demand of foreign markets.

In addition, with the improvement of environmental standards in recent years, China's leather industry is in the throes of restructuring and development.

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In the process of pformation and upgrading, some problems such as environmental protection have encountered some fluctuations, but these are temporary. After roughly 1-2 years of adjustment, they will gradually return to their normal level of development.

Because environmental protection is not up to standard, some small businesses have been closed, but this is a good process for the whole industry, and the enterprises that are out of line with the environmental protection requirements are eliminated, and some large and truly powerful enterprises will become stronger and stronger.

Leather industry of Taiwan businessmen in the world

Yang Zheng, chairman of the founding Committee and chairman of Tai Qing leather group, is impressed by the Chinese government's request for environmental protection standards in the leather industry in recent years. He believes that the improvement of environmental standards now provides a more fair competition environment for Taiwan funded leather enterprises, which developed in the mainland and suffered from costs at the expense of environmental protection.

"When we invested in the mainland 20 years ago, the leather factories in the mainland were generally small and chaotic, and they were old leather factories.

After 20 years of development, leather enterprises have gone through a stage of blossom and blossom.

Now, according to the environmental standards of the government, the factories that do not make environmental protection can no longer survive. All those who can survive now are conscientiously doing environmental protection.

Of course, environmental protection must be done well. Enterprises also need to pay a lot of costs and costs, which is fairly Fair for Taiwan funded and foreign-funded enterprises, which originally suffered from large cost of environmental protection input and suffered price losses.

In addition to continuously improving the environmental standards of leather enterprises, the Chinese government has also increased R & D of leather making and pollution control and environmental protection technology.

In 2006, Wang Quanjie, director of the ten National People's Congress and director of the national tannery technology research and Extension Center, led the team to undertake a research and development project on environmental protection technology of automotive interior leather production by the Ministry of science and technology of China. It took four years to achieve major technological breakthroughs in China's leather tanning and leather tanning, and achieved remarkable environmental results.

Wang Quanjie said, "after using this technology, the environmental pollution from vehicle tanning has been reduced by more than 60%, and the working environment of workers has also changed a lot, more humanized, and achieved better results in environmental protection and rectification in the industry."

According to Wang Quanjie, at present, the US General Motors, Volkswagen, BMW and many Japanese car companies have begun to adopt the Chinese made leather seats and interior decoration. The development prospect of Chinese automobile tanning is very good.

Su Chaoying, chairman of the China Leather Association, also believes that vehicle tanning is a new growth point in the leather industry of China. Under the background of slowing down of the whole industry, the output of automobile tanning has increased by about 10% over the previous year.

China is currently the world's largest auto market, with more than 23 million car sales in 2013, of which 40% are leather seats.

With the prosperity of car market, more and more leather enterprises are concerned about the business opportunities of automobile tanning.

As one of the leading enterprises in China's automobile tanning industry, Sichuan Zhen Jing Limited by Share Ltd has entered the field of automobile tanning since 1998. At present, it is the main automotive leather supplier of Ford, TOYOTA and Guangzhou Automobile Group.

In 1998, Sichuan Zhen Jing Limited by Share Ltd became the first Chinese private enterprise to get the world bank loan because of its emphasis on environmental protection investment, hardware input and management system specification matching with pnational vehicle enterprises.

He Xiaolan, general manager of the company, is confident of the development prospects of the company's tanning business. She said that the sales volume of tanning business increased by 60% last year when the sales of leather tanning were declining.

"I am absolutely optimistic that China's demand for cars will not decline.

Everyone from the beginning of the car, to have a car, have a car and want to have a better configuration of the car, leather interior car is definitely better configuration, so I am optimistic about the future prospects of this field.

Despite the fact that there has been a slowdown in the leather industry, there are new hopes for China's leather industry, such as the development of automobile tanning. With the continuous breakthroughs in China's leather making, pollution control and environmental protection technology, together with the joint efforts of the Chinese government and enterprises in environmental protection, I believe that the leather industry, which has a multi year history, can spend a short period of adjustment in China and usher in new vitality.