China changes suit Cartigliano
24/02/2016
"Our sales are going up," said Cartigliano's area manager for China (and India), Marco Bidoggia, in conversation with World Leather at Tanning Tech 2016 in Milan in February. He explained that the company's way of doing business in China has changed.
"We're now selling to big groups rather than one machine to tannery A, another to tannery B and so on," he said. "There are fewer tanneries in China now, but those that are operating there are investing more in technology. The big groups understand about investing now for payback later."
He remarked particularly on the willingness of large tanning groups in China to invest now in his company's full drying line. The Cartigliano Line is a collection of carefully developed machines that tanners can run in sequence from the end of samm-setting to after staking.