Tanneries in Quanzhou city with annual production capacity below 30,000 pieces of cow leather equivalence will be closed from now on, according to recent meeting for verification and regulation to enterprises violated environmental protection standards held in Jinjiang city. The meeting sets a ban on increasing of new leather processing projects in Quanzhou city and processing raw hides during the transition period.
Further more tanneries with annual production capacity above 30,000 pieces of cow leather equivalence and less than 100,000 pieces will be eliminated by from January 1, 2012. The regulations also include the drum with size of 2.8m×2.5m. Production with less 300,000 pieces leather wouldn’t be allowed to operate by the end of 2014.
The meeting required the 88 enterprises including sectors of chemicals, dyeing and printing, leather and paper making that fell to meet the verification to suspend production for rectification. The list of these companies was announced on local media.
