Influenced By "Green Barrier" &Nbsp, Guangdong Footwear Industry Joined The Green Force.

Shoe enterprises

Industry, traders and purchasers also brought together many shoe making professionals in the world.

Among them, thousands of shoe making professionals from traditional shoe making powers such as Italy, Spain, France and other shoe making professionals from Taiwan, China have played an important role in the development of Guangdong's footwear industry.

Chinese talents such as Wenzhou, Fujian and Shanghai are also gathering in Guangdong for development.

At the same time, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhongshan, the South China Sea, Shunde, Heshan and other Pearl River Delta enterprises were formed as the leading companies, and gradually extended to the eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong wings, such as Huidong, Chaozhou, Jieyang, Wuchuan, Wuchuan and so on.

With the development of shoe making industry, the huge shoe industry has also promoted the supporting development of shoe material tanning industry, shoe making machinery, hardware accessories, chemical raw materials and other related industries. There are more than 3000 shoe making and shoe making enterprises in various parts of Guangdong.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 2 million employees in the footwear industry and related industries in the province.

"Green barrier" makes environmental protection a general trend.

At present, paying attention to environmental protection is the trend of the times. If we do not work hard on environmental standards, it will be difficult to develop small and medium-sized shoe enterprises alone by developing new markets such as ASEAN and Africa.

Europe and the United States regard environmental factors as weapons of trade protection, and repeatedly raise environmental standards, which pose technical obstacles to shoemaking enterprises, and labor shortages, appreciation of Renminbi and price rise of raw materials are weakening.

Strengthening environmental awareness

At present, China's footwear industry has become the world's largest shoe producer with the annual output of over 10 billion pairs of shoes. However, the environmental protection situation of China's footwear industry is still very grim. The content of azo, formaldehyde and six valent chromium in raw materials is far beyond the standard. In the production process, the use of adhesives containing three benzene in the production process is restricted to the export market in Europe and the United States.

Last year, many small and medium-sized shoe materials enterprises actively explored new markets, only to maintain a small increase in exports.

However, many enterprises believe that because some shoe making enterprises use traditional oil-based adhesives, and these adhesives contain more than 80% solvent, every year, a large number of organic solvents are released into the atmosphere. Under the background of energy saving and emission reduction, the export of shoes products will face more "environmental protection" pressure.

However, some brands are forced to use environmentally-friendly adhesives such as Lining, Anta, 360, Jordan, PEAK and other brands.

Domestic shoemaking enterprises from various aspects such as equipment, shoe sole material, shoe upper fabric to glue use and so on, will be improved in many ways to cope with the test of "green".

Internationalization of "green consumption" consciousness

In the process of humanistic care in today's world, the green brand image of enterprises and industries plays a very important role in sustainable development. In the global green consumption movement, there is a set of figures in foreign countries that can illustrate the problem: 84% of Dutch people, 89% of Americans and 90% of Germans will take into account the environmental standards of their products when purchasing goods.

Therefore, as people pay more and more attention to environment and health, international footwear brand footwear enterprises are more and more strict in the supply chain, processing sites and workers' living environment for their own brand image and interests when purchasing.

Because shoemaking enterprises try to use environmentally friendly products in the process of shoemaking cleaning, bonding and finishing, in order to reduce VOD emissions, and use automatic devices to save manual operation. Footwear manufacturing enterprises, combined with the manufacturing process and material development of shoe making industry, produce safer, environmentally-friendly and high-performance glue series for shoes. The upgrading and adjustment of shoemaking industry, manufacturers of shoe making machinery and equipment are more important tasks.

President He Guiling said that although the RMB appreciation, raw material prices rose sharply, wages of workers increased, many small and medium-sized shoe enterprises were forced to undergo bitter pformation.

However, there are still few products with high added value and high technology content in the footwear industry. Enterprises should gradually realize the export from products to capital output, brand output, adjust product mix, improve product quality and grade, and increase the added value of products.

Only in this way can the shoe enterprises guarantee their favorable position when they export.

She stressed that the footwear industry in Guangdong must strengthen its independent innovation, play its own brand, increase the added value of products, enhance the overall image, and achieve another success in the next ten years.