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A largest tannery puts into operation in western area of China

A largest tannery puts into operation in western area of China

Write: Oskar [2011-05-20]

The Hongliang Tannery started a leather production project with annual annual capacity of 600,000 pieces of cow leather on October 22, 2010 in Guanghe Economic and Developing Zone in Guansu, the northwest province of China. The leading brands of footwear groups including Aokang, Belle, Senda, Red Dragonfly and many industrial experts and scholars presented on opening ceremony, concurrently a leather engineer and technical research center also founded in the tannery.

Guanghe County in Guansu province was a fur skin distributing and trade center since ancient time, and now leather industry is a most important sector for local economic. In recent years the industry has grown rapidly and boosted the local economy prosperous. Hongliang Tannery with total assets of 480 million yuan is a leading enterprise in Guanghe leather industry, the newly opened production line is a project listed in the revitalization and technical renovation program for national key industries, which is launched by National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Industry and information.

The nwe project with total the investment of over 80 million yuan will double the production capacity of Hongliang Tannery that may rank the fifth national wide in terms of production. As one of leading enterprises Hongliang Tannery will play an important role on boosting animal farming and solving the surplus rural labor employment, as well as on driving the economic growth.