The Global Leather Coordinating Committee Held An Industry Situation Analysis Conference.

< p > March 25th, the global leather Coordinating Committee (ICT), composed of the international leather Committee (ICT), the international a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/", "leather /a", the Federation of industrial and Chemical Societies (IULTCS) and the international raw materials Association (ICHSLTA), held a meeting in the Asia Pacific region during the "leather" exhibition.

In view of the current plight and demand of leather industry, the representatives of the leather industry carried out SWOT, namely leather industry's competitive advantage, competitive disadvantage, opportunity and threat analysis.

From the analysis, natural and renewable is one of the main competitive advantages of leather industry, while the corresponding social consumer or consumer's lack of understanding of leather is the main competitive disadvantage.

The chance of the leather industry mainly lies in the natural beauty of the leather, and the threat mainly lies in the confusion with the synthetic materials.

Delegates agreed that it is now necessary to give a better explanation of leather, and it is also necessary to further emphasize the sustainability of the leather industry.

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< p > for this purpose, GLCC has set clear goals and is in good progress.

< a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > International tannery Committee < /a > (ICT) is collecting standards and codes related to leather labels all over the world, marking leather through international leather logo is a more complex and specific work next step. At present, the existing logo and attribution are being summarized, and will soon be cataloged.

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< p > the current leather carbon footprint database project is in progress, and the boundary of its computing system was determined at the UNIDO leather working group meeting in 2012.

Some tanning enterprises have already participated in the project, and welcomes the participation of the a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com" tanning enterprise in the world in /a.

In addition, the EU tannery Committee informed the European Standard Committee about the progress of environmental protection standards for leather products from March.

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< p > IULTCS is preparing a draft catalogue of dangerous substances in leather.

At the meeting, the participants also discussed the issue of the six price chromium limitation in leather. The 3ppm restriction has been adopted by the REACH regulations. The restriction is expected to be fully adopted within the EU within two years and will also apply to leather imported into the EU.

GLCC will assist in releasing the best use guidelines to achieve this limit.

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< p > GLCC the next meeting will be held in Bologna in October.

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