Local authorities ban beamhouses
23/08/2012
Pingyang County near Wenzhou had an estimated 1,200 tanneries ten years ago and produced around 25% of China’s entire pigskin output. Five years ago, the county authorities reduced the number of tanneries in the area to 57 owing to the industry’s environmental performance at the time.
Now the authorities have said they want to encourage all producers to buy leather in and make finished products instead, suggesting that all tanning operations will have to stop by June 2014. As a first step, they have said that no tanner will be able to run a beamhouse in Pingyang from the start of 2013.
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