ECO EXPLORATION

China is the largest leather producing country in the world with over 6.2 billion sq ft leather produced every year, representing more than 25% of the annual global leather production. China’s leather industry is renowned for producing heavy skin used for manufacturing belts, straps and soles, while light leather used in shoes, bags, and jackets. Most of China’s leather output is derived from light bovine skin which accounts for nearly 40% of the total production per year, making China the biggest producer of bovine skin in the world as well.

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Though Italy is the world’s largest leather exporter by value, exporting over $3.8 billion worth of leather to the global market, China is the largest leather exporter by volume, representing nearly 36% of the world’s total leather export volume.

China is also one of the world’s largest leather importers, mainly driven by the rapidly rising demand in the downstream sectors such as footwear, fashion accessories and furniture products.

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In the past, due to technical barriers in the recycling the leather scraps, almost all of the leather scraps end up in the landfill.  Thus, finding a technically and economically sounded solution to recycle and reuse the leather wastes is a critical task. 

 

After years of the efforts, ShengHe Fiber Tech has found the ways to solve the problem.  The impact is quite significant not only for the environment but creating value to the local economy.