Third-largest chrome salts supplier makes Lanxess move
13/08/2019
Haining has such an extensive leather industry supply chain, with tanneries, chemicals and machinery suppliers and an entire shopping mall devoted to leather clothes, shoes, accessories and interior design, that its nickname is Leather City. Other than leather, the company’s main focus is on vitamins.
Brother Enterprises launched there in 1991 and was originally called the Haining Leather Chemicals Factory. It makes chemicals for tanning, retanning, fatliquoring, finishing and auxiliaries and is already an important supplier globally of chrome salts, calling itself the third-largest supplier of chrome salts to the global leather industry (without taking the proposed acquisition of Lanxess assets into account). It started out with a manual workshop and now runs several high-tech laboratories.
Indications are that it will set up a new subsidiary in South Africa to run the Newcastle chrome salts production plant that it is acquiring from Lanxess.
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