Su Chaoying “very optimistic” about the industry’s future in China
10/09/2015
He said there were still around 1,000 tanneries operating in China and that CLIA is continuing to promote the idea of clusters, in which groups of tanners will work close to one another in up-to-date facilities, sharing services such as those of a modern wastewater treatment plant.
“This is the most important part of our policy for the future,” he said. “The facilities tanners can have in the cluster model mean we can keep improving our environmental management and keep increasing the number of world-class tanneries in China.” He said a trend of smaller operators being acquired by bigger tanning groups will also continue to contribute to the contraction in the overall number of tanneries in the country.
At the end of 2011, Mr Su told World Leather that there were 1,800 tanneries working in China at that time, but he said he expected the figure to be nearer 1,500 in 2014. The figures offered now by Mr Su indicate that the number of tanneries in operation in China has fallen by nearly 45% in four years.
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