China Leather Association Conducts Research On Leather Industry In Italy And France

Recently, on the occasion of visiting LINEAPELLE and CUIR A PARIS in Paris, Su Chaoying, director of China Leather Association and relevant personnel, conducted an investigation into leather industry in Europe.

1 Italy leather industry and French leather industry develop smoothly.

Italy is the world's leading producer of leather.

In 2013, there were 1269 tanneries in Italy. The output of light leather was 129 million square meters and 34000 tons of heavy leather, an increase of 2.4% and a decrease of 1.6% compared with the same period last year. The output value was 5 billion 250 million euros, an increase of 9% over the same period last year.

Italy's leather output accounts for 66% of the EU's total, and for the first time in 7 years, it has achieved double growth in the export market and the domestic market.

Over 90% of Italy leather is concentrated production, mainly in four regions, including Veneto, Tuscany, Campania and Lombardy.

Among them, the Veneto area is the leader in leather processing and labor force, basically realizing automatic and standardized production. Leather production in the region is the largest, leather output accounts for 52%, followed by Tuscany area, leather manufacturing enterprises in the region are the largest and leather output accounts for 28%.

In 2013, Italy's leather exports amounted to 4 billion 10 million euros, an increase of 8.6% over the same period last year, after 2001.

The EU is the main export area of leather in Italy, with a share of over 50%. From a single export country or region, the largest share of exports to China is about 20% of the total leather exported to Italy.

In terms of raw material import, only 6% of raw materials are made in Italy, and the rest are imported from abroad.

In 2013, Italy imported 855 thousand tons of raw material skin, an increase of 4% over the same period last year.

Among them, according to the measurement of raw material leather, wet blue is the most, accounting for 60%, raw leather is 38%, and billet leather only accounts for 2%.

From the importing countries and regions, Italy imports 54% of raw materials from the EU, raw materials from Latin America account for about 21%, followed by the North American Free Trade Area and Australia, accounting for 6%.

Leather industry in France

There are not many French tanning enterprises, about 60, but they have always been important suppliers of many famous international brands. Many tanning enterprises have belonged to luxury brands.

In the past five years, the tanning industry in France has maintained a steady development trend.

It is understood that in 2013, France produced a total of 12400 tons of cowhide wet blue leather and 3600 tons of finished leather leather, and the turnover of leather was 174 million euros, an increase of 1.5% over the same period last year. The small leather (including goat skin, sheep skin and reptile skin) industry produced 150 thousand pieces of wet blue and 5 million 130 thousand pieces of finished leather, and the turnover of small leather continued to increase since 2010, and the turnover reached 250 million euros in 2013, up 8.8% over the same period last year.

2 the exhibition of leather trends in Paris and the French Leather Fair in France

Leather Exhibition

On September 10th -12, the leather exhibition was held in Milan, Italy.

The exhibition attracted 1126 enterprises, including 713 enterprises in Italy, and a total of 413 enterprises from 40 countries and regions in Europe, America and Asia.

Among the 1126 enterprises participating in the exhibition, there are 559 leather making enterprises, 411 leather accessories enterprises, 127 synthetic leather enterprises, and 29 exhibitors from the design industry, professional institutions, news media and so on. The exhibition area is 41690 square meters.

The first exhibition was held in Milan, Italy in 1981. After five years, the 1986 exhibition was pferred from Milan to Bologna and lasted until 2013.

According to the change and demand of leather market, from 2014, the Lai Pei Li Leather Exhibition returned to Milan.

Paris Leather Fair

The Paris leather exhibition was held in Paris on -18 September 16th.

The exhibition is held two times a year.

Compared with the recently concluded leather exhibition, the leather exhibition in Paris is much smaller, with a total area of about 10 thousand square meters, but the exhibition pays more attention to the fashion of exhibitors.

There are over 420 enterprises from 22 countries and regions in the world.

The number of exhibitors in Italy is the largest, accounting for 221.

There are 65 companies in France.

Of all the exhibitors, there are more than 330 leather making enterprises, accounting for about 80%, of which 40 are special leather (crocodile skin, snake skin, ostrich skin, etc.) and 40 fur enterprises.

In addition, some shoe materials and accessories enterprises participate in the exhibition.

China has no exhibitors.

According to reports, the exhibition has been the focus of France and the world's important leather products brand.

From the products of this year's exhibition, the new technology, new technology and new products are still the highlight of the exhibition. The innovation and popularity of its products have attracted wide attention.

In terms of new technology, chrome free tanning and vegetable tanning products have been placed in a prominent position in many enterprises. The Paris leather exhibition is funded by a part of tanning leather enterprises. Every year, some college students organize some tanning leather as raw materials to carry out design events, so as to promote vegetable tanning leather. In the new process, many tanning enterprises produce colorful, colorful and different styles of leather by printing, rubbing, coating or combining with textile materials. Besides, exhibitors also display a large number of special leather such as crocodile skin, ostrich skin, snake skin and so on.

Through the exhibition, we also know that for the downstream products industry, which is closely related to leather industry, most enterprises indicate that leather products and automotive interior products have a relatively good development trend. Besides leather shoes and furniture, the development prospects of other markets are not clear, except for the US market.

Judging from the global economy, the slow pace of China's economic development and the uncertainty of Russian economic development also bring uncertainties to the leather market.

Three

After attending the exhibition to understand the trend of technology and product development and the development trend of leather industry, the association has also conducted technical exchanges with industry colleagues in Italy and France and visited the relevant enterprises.

Sludge treatment has become a major problem facing the global leather industry.

In this regard, China Leather Association staff during the exhibition and Italy leather equipment supplier Cartigliano communication and exchange, especially understand the company's research and development of sludge reduction equipment.

The equipment further dryness the sludge on the basis of sludge pressure filtration, which can significantly reduce the sludge. This technology provides a choice for the leather industry to solve the sludge problem.

Clean leather production is the only way for leather industry development, and clean production technology must be supported by mechanical equipment.

In September 13th, the association went to Vallero, a drum manufacturer in Italy, to understand the design ideas and ideas of the company's production of energy saving and water-saving overload drum.

In September 15th, the association visited the headquarters of CTC, France, and conducted in-depth exchanges with Mr. CTC CEO Morin and other management personnel, and visited its testing laboratory to learn about the EU's best practicable technology (BAT) and the environmental management system and discharge standards of the tanning industry in France.