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The World Leather Industry Will Shift Its Focus To China In Twenty-First Century.

2012/3/10 15:37:00 10

Leather industry

It is one of the traditional industries in China and has a long history.

Because leather has unique hygienic and mechanical properties, it is especially suitable for wear and use.

Leather industry, including leather industry, is not only a pillar industry in light industry, but also an export oriented industry. The value of exports has been ranked first among light industry sectors for many years.

Leather making industry is a traditional industry. After a long period of development, leather making has developed from an original simple manual operation to an important industrial sector.

Since the beginning of the leather industry in the early 1980s, the leather industry in China has been developing rapidly, and now it has become one of the most important leather and leather products production centers in the world.

China's cattle hide, pigskin and sheepskin resources rank first in the world. China's annual output of light leather ranks the first in the world, accounting for more than 20% of the world's total.

With the development of world economic integration, the center of leather industry in the world will shift further to China. The leather making industry will become a characteristic industry in China and will play an increasingly important role in the national economy.

Generally divided into

tanning agent

5 types of fatliquoring agents, fatliquoring agents, finishing agents, special auxiliaries and special dyes are fine chemical products with bright future.

The main producers of leather products are in Western Europe, with more than 600 varieties. Only BASF produces 5 categories of products with 400 varieties.

At present, the general trend of leather industry in the world is towards multi-functional, multi variety, high quality, serialization and matching supply.

The emphasis of retanning agents is on the development of less chrome and chromium free. The research and development of alternative tanning agents can reduce the amount of chrome tanning agents and reduce the chromium content in tannery sewage, so as to reduce environmental pollution.

Retanning agents are also important development varieties.

Fatliquoring agent

The multifunctional development is mainly aimed at improving the fatliquoring effect and binding ability, and has the functions of retanning, filling, waterproof, electrolyte resistance and so on.

The finishing agent mainly develops towards pollute free, water resistant, solvent resistant, washable, light resistant (drying) direction, and requires the skin to be strong after finishing.

Acrylic and polyurethane are two major types of leather finishing agents.

Auxiliaries mainly develop to specialization and serialization, such as various preservatives, water soaking agents, liming agents, depilatory agents, deashing agents, pickling agents, softeners, levelling agents, neutralizer, degreasing agent, buffering agent, etc.

Since 1990s, the leather industry in the Asia Pacific region has maintained a relatively high growth rate.

China is the largest developing country of leather industry in the Asia Pacific region. Some authoritative figures of the leather industry in the world predict that the world leather industry center will be in China in twenty-first Century.

The shift of the focus of the world leather industry to Asia, especially to China, will bring better development opportunities to China's leather industry and related industries.