Leather Industry Transformation And Upgrading To Break Through

"The park is speeding up the overall progress, and the county has also strengthened policy docking, especially in terms of working capital allocation and credit line raising." Red Lake, Zhangpu, Fujian Leatherwear Park responsible person said.

It is understood that the park was built in 2006, as early as in 2009, because of the environmental storm caused the construction of the park into a predicament. The closure of production has become the common choice of 12 leather enterprises in the leather park. In the rectification period, only the pains of no output have broken down, so that the capital chain of enterprises is nearly broken, and the operation is difficult to sustain. After several rectification measures, the sewage treatment plants jointly funded by the park enterprises have been put into operation, and all 12 households have been put into operation again, with an annual output value of 5 billion yuan.

Chek Hu leather garden is a microcosm of the development of leather industry in China. Leather industry is a highly polluting, high threshold, high input, high yield, high dedication industry, known as "never declining Chaoyang enterprise". According to the data released by China Leather Association, the industry exported 12 billion 290 million US dollars in 1-2 this year, down 21.1% from the same period last year. Imports of US $1 billion 210 million decreased by 10.2% compared to the same period last year.

Experts pointed out that from the perspective of economic operation, the data is not optimistic, and the prospects are uncertain.

Opening up the shuffle transformation mode, "profits have plummeted, several times less than before, and orders were quite numerous, but after losing money, they did not receive a batch of workers." The head of a leather enterprise in Jinjiang told reporters that the overall profit of the leather industry is dropping.

This is not the concern of a single company. "The growth rate is slowing down. The problem facing the industry this year is probably the most serious year in the last 7 years. The era of triumphant advance is gone forever. " China Leather Association official said that the biggest pressure on the leather industry this year is that the downstream market is sluggish in sales and has many negative effects, such as rising labor costs and environmental pressures.

In this regard, China Leather Association analysis pointed out that in addition to the lack of industry innovation capability, brand Weak and weak channel control, in the global industrial chain in the middle and low end itself reasons, but also faced with market demand growth is weak, domestic low cost competitive advantage weakened, factor driven mode is difficult to follow, industry transfer to Southeast Asia and Africa, resource and environmental load close to the upper limit and other development constraints.

It is understood that China's artificial leather synthetic leather industry has developed over the past 50 years, and its output has accounted for 80% of the world's market share. Behind the scenes, most products are simply duplicated, and the grades of products are not improved. product There is still a big gap; the overcapacity of the whole industry is prominent, and the competition for products is fierce.

"In Fujian, many leather enterprises have abandoned their products and technological innovations and have gone against the standard line of operation. They have begun to subsidize the leather industry by investing in real estate and other high profit platforms. Leather industry has been plunged into vicious competition for a long time, and the value of its products has been decreasing, losing market share at home and abroad. Insiders pointed out that the whole industry has entered the era of big reshuffle, and the transformation and upgrading, innovation and upgrading of products and technologies have been the new trend of the development of the whole industry.

Supercharging brings new opportunities

Quanzhou is the gathering place of Fujian leather industry. However, the environmental protection problem has almost gone to half of Quanzhou leather industry. Quangang, Jinjiang Anhai and other large traditional leather producing areas have been shuffled.

Especially in 2015, the new environmental protection law was put into effect. Many small and medium-sized leather enterprises were eliminated because of environmental protection. More and more stringent environmental problems are constantly bringing pressure to the leather industry. According to the water pollution control action plan previously issued by the State Council, by the end of 2016, all production projects such as papermaking, tannery, printing and dyeing, fuel and other serious polluted water environment which are not in line with national industrial policies have been banned.

"Now our enterprises are first-class in sewage disposal, and the investment in environmental protection facilities accounts for a large proportion of the total investment of enterprises, but the problem of sewage treatment needs further improvement and upgrading." Quanzhou relevant departments responsible person said.

Under the background of green development, the environmental protection policy has always maintained a high pressure. The traditional leather processing industry is naturally the first to become the object of regulation. "The high cost of pollution control will make it no longer feasible to sacrifice the environment for economic benefits." Insiders pointed out that the high pressure of environmental protection policy is forcing the industry to seek transformation and achieve sustainable and high-quality growth. "The strength of leather enterprises in this period will promote environmental protection problems, waiting for the market to improve."

The China Leather Association also stressed that China's huge potential market, a complete industrial chain, an efficient industrial cluster, a high-quality industrial team, and the world's largest production capacity are the effective foundation for the development of China's leather industry. With the development of intelligent manufacturing, the structural reform of supply side, the gradual optimization of industrial structure and the cultivation of innovative talents will provide a new source of power for the development of China's leather industry.

Reporters learned that backward production capacity to exit, bringing opportunities for alternatives. As the third generation of synthetic leather, the hand feel and appearance of microfiber leather are comparable to that of genuine leather, and have excellent physical properties such as abrasion resistance and breathability. More importantly, the pollution caused by its production process is much lower than that of genuine leather and traditional synthetic leather.

"The more the industry is sluggish, the larger enterprises will have to expand and expand their market share. This is a normal economic phenomenon." Chen Dongsheng, deputy director of Jinjiang Environmental Protection Bureau, said.

Seeking the way to break through

In addition to concentrating on pollution control, the leather industry in Jinjiang is launching a "technological fever", which will provide new impetus for the development of leather industry in Jinjiang with technological innovation.

Some enterprises are also actively developing independently. As a leading leather enterprise, Xingye leather has set up a research institute in 2002. The annual cost of scientific research has reached about 20000000 yuan. At present, it has 7 national patents.

New products R & D and technological innovation, so that Fujian Huayang microfiber Co., Ltd. in the industry to gain a foothold. In recent years, Huayang has established a school enterprise relationship with many famous universities. In June last year, Huayang became the research and development base of synthetic leather new fiber material. It is one of the four domestic R & D or production bases for microfiber leather. At present, Huayang is participating in the formulation of the 13 industry standards.

It is understood that Fujian is China's leading industries in artificial leather and synthetic leather, leather and other industries. The level of technology, innovative materials and so on are in the forefront of the industry. In the face of environmental protection departments' pollution control, Fujian leather manufacturing industry is promoting the experimentation area in the construction of ecological civilization system innovation.

In addition, the industry pointed out that leather industry to achieve transformation and upgrading, to "change the head" and "change the content." The so-called "changing the head" refers to the concept of the development of the industry; "changing content" includes the re integration and upgrading of the entire industrial chain.

Industry experts also said that the leather garment industry "embrace the Internet" level will undoubtedly be more in-depth, and its connotation is not only e-commerce, but also more reflected in the big data, cloud computing and other great changes brought about by the industrial chain.