Ethiopia’s government have removed a 150% duty formerly imposed on wet blue and pickled leather. Due to such tax, first implemented in 2008, exports of raw hides and skins and semi-finished products had actually come to a standstill. According to local press, and reported by leatherbiz.com, the government hopes that the industry will benefit, to […]
India’s tanneries based in Kanpur have stopped working again. India is about to start celebrations for the Magh Mela, the annual Hindu feast where believers gather in the city of Prayang. That is why India’s government decided to force tanneries, actively running in the leather district, to stop working again. They have brought about the […]
The Leather Manufacturers section of the Leather Working Group collects a total 539 tanneries from across the world. These tanneries are the ones that have started the procedure to face, reads the LWG site, “the environmental audit protocol”, which in its “original form has been developed by brands and tanneries, with the assistance of non-for […]
Increase exports to Europe. And, therefore, compensate for the probable reduction of American orders caused by the trade war. This is Jones Hsueh’s strategy, co-founder of Chinese shoe manufacturer Kaihong Shoes. The company develops 85% of the business with the American market, producing for a large group of US brands. For example: Steve Madden, Naturalizer,...
Portuguese footwear export will fall by 5% in 2019. But now, the industry reacts by focusing on sustainability. The country’s reference association (APICCAPS) already has a 12-point action plan made of 50 steps. The timeframe The document should contribute to the revamping of Portuguese footwear export. After 10 record-breaking years, the decrease in 2019 will […]
Leather goods factory are burning in India, and the outcome is terrible. Hell broke out on Sunday, December 8, when a terrible fire destroyed a leather goods factory in New Delhi, India. The outcome is tragic: 43 people died. The fire broke out around 5 am in a building in Anaj Mandi, an ancient district […]
The Indian buffalo supply chain has to deal with a double problem. The first: Beijing blocks meat. A ban on New Delhi beef has been in force in China since 2001, but for a year now authorities have also prevented imports from third parties. And here we come to the second problem. Indian slaughterers, left […]
India’s leather takes a dive on international markets. Council for Leather Exports (CLE), inf act, has shared the data regarding the chain’s export performance during the period from April to October 2019. The result is anything but brilliant. Export dropped by 5.6%. CLE also pointed out how the downward trend was more accentuated month after […]
The number, while not “mind-blowing” surely is surprising. Based on data contained in the World Footwear Yearbook, published by Portuguese Association APICCAPS (Associação Portuguesa Ind. Calçado Componentes Artigos Pele Sucedaneos), the global footwear industry produced somewhere around 24.2 billion pairs of shoes during the year 2018.
On the way to build up the leather district in Agra, it is likely to be downhill from now on (perhaps). Mahendra Nath Pandey, the Indian Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, has reassured the footwear industry entrepreneurs. Beyond restrictions India’s government reassurances are about the possibility to overcome a few restrictions, including, […]
Belarusian leather heads towards China and India. Tatyana Lugina, president of Bellegprom state consortium, announced the plans set by MLPA (Minsk Leather Production Association), which is about to sell its hides in the East area. The scenario The scenario of the decision they made public is a network of relations between institutions and manufacturing companies. […]
A testimony from who works in the luxury retail segment of Hong Kong daily doesn’t leave any room for interpretation. “There is no short-term solution in sight. Suicides are increasing, along with Visas’ requests from those that want to relocate abroad. Brands are no longer asking themselves whether to close down or not, but rather...
Uttar Pradesh’s leather chain keeps on getting smaller. About 100 tanneries previously operating in Kanpur and Chennai, the two leather clusters of the region, are close to transferring inside Calcutta’s industrial complex. The new Cluster As reported by uniindia.com, the government of Western Bengal is strengthening the area’s infrastructure, for the space called Calcutta Leather […]
Export is decreasing, there are concerns over the future and health risks. India’s leather chain is undergoing a challenging period as it is impacted by two main factors: on one side is the commercial war between the United States and China, while on the other is the forced shut-down of Kanpur’s tanneries which has recently […]
They have defied law, but rules have prevailed. Last week, on Monday, during an inspection carried out to monitor all tanneries based in the district of Kanpur, officers of the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) identified two factories: they were working at full speed, despite the prohibition. They should have stopped their activity, in […]
It has been working since last August. It is due to run at full speed by the end of the year. We are talking about Marchino, a new manufacturing project implemented by Conceria Antiba in the town of Ranipet, India. The project Let us tell about its name, to begin with. Graziano and Paolo Balducci, […]
On the one hand, they are supporting industry. On the other hand, they have been completely shutting down a few clusters. In India, leather industry professionals live and work in a complicated and rather contradictory context. Fostering footwear India’s government announced they are going to support footwear industry by creating some corporate Social Responsibility funds […]
“We are sorry, but chrome is no longer strategic”. Lanxess sells its chrome chemicals division to china-based brother. Will anything change in the market ?
The extension works of Calcutta tanning district have started eventually. Yesterday, Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister of Western Bengal, laid the first stone in the manufacturing plants bound to rise up in the Bantala Leather Complex. It is going to be the industrial hub of leather industry, which is growing around the Indian city. Running away […]
Tanneries and leather goods manufacturers located in Kanpur can finally re-open their doors, but at a price. Uttar Pradesh’s government, Indian state where the leather and leather-working district is located, has passed laws that only allow those that will respect environmental practices set by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control […]
