Vietnam Shoe Enterprises Look Forward To More Opportunities For Signing TPP Agreement

Vietnam leather, footwear and bags Association (Lefaso) and representatives of the American footwear distributors retailer Association (FDRA) have recently met in Vietnam.

At the meeting, experts said that once the TPP agreement was signed, it would bring huge opportunities for Vietnam's footwear industry to export to the United States, because the tariffs on Vietnamese shoes exported to the United States were almost zero.

Business representatives from the United States also said Vietnam has become their main manufacturing base in Asia.

Once the TPP agreement is reached, more and more enterprises will be there.

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It is reported that Vietnam's wages are only 38% of China's. in some areas, Vietnam's labor force can basically achieve similar production efficiency.

International Scott Thomas also mentioned that his company is moving from China to Vietnam.

Thomas said that 75% of its supply came from China, but it will be reduced to 33% by 2020, and the rest of the supply will go to Vietnam.

Vietnam now provides 14.5% of the Wolverine international footwear industry.

For Vietnam,

It is the third largest export sector in the world, which generated $8 billion 500 million in revenue last year.

Nearly 600 companies employ more than 1 million 100 thousand workers directly, producing about 800 million pairs of shoes a year.

Lefaso vice chairman Diep Thanh Kiet said Vietnam's footwear industry will also create a more solid supply base for raw materials and promote technological upgrading so as to make full use of the opportunities brought by the TPP agreement.

But according to China Leather net reporter, Vietnamese local enterprises are unable to produce basic raw materials for shoemaking, such as leather, PVC, polyurethane and cloth.

Vietnamese companies still lag behind in marketing and skin development skills.

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France Valgo has successfully tested a new method for tannery sludge removal.

The test was conducted on the former site of a former tannery in TN Province, southwest France.

Valgo is located in Paris, specializing in soil treatment, especially in cleaning up industrial waste pollution so that it can be reused in particular.

The company said the key to the success of the new method is to use a plant called geranium (or geranium, geraniums).

They explained that using plants to remove toxic substances from soil or wastewater is not a fresh idea. It started decades ago, and this process is called plant extraction (phytoextraction).

Laurent Thannberger, the scientific director of Valgo, told French media that the process of absorbing metal elements through plants was slow.

In addition, the method of using plant extracts to treat industrial waste has not been launched in large scale in the industry.

The company also said that before using geranium, they first dissolve metals with solvents, which would make plants better absorb metal elements.

The solvents they use are easy to obtain, and are widely used in medical and chemical fields.

The experiment in Tann tannery successfully extracted many metal elements from soil, such as chromium (chrome), copper (copper), lead (lead) and zinc (zinc).

Mr. Thannberger said his company is now conducting a new experiment to see how different combinations of plants and solvents can produce different types of soil.