Jiujiang leather cluster to open by end of year

25/10/2012
Construction is under way at a leather hub in Jiujiang Chihu Industrial Zone in China, estimated to cost 2.2 billion yuan ($350 million), according to the China Leather Industry Association.

It reported that the cluster will use the most advanced technologies for cleaner production and effluent treatment and will have a yearly capacity of eight million hides and a turnover of $1.6 billion.
Around 17 workshops and the effluent treatment plant could be in operation by the end of this year.

Jiujiang is located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province.

Businessmen from Zhejiang province are believed to be the investors.