Xinji Leather Industry Under The Crisis Of Innovation And Development

    To enhance the market competitiveness, we must focus on improving the technical content of products. In recent years, the scale of Xinji leather industry has been expanding and has become the pillar industry of county economy, but it has also encountered the bottleneck of development - most leather enterprises have low technology research and development capacity, mutual technical blockade between enterprises, and lack of financial support for R & D units, which blocks the technological innovation channels of enterprises.

      In order to overcome these obstacles, Xinji leather Productivity Promotion Center was established in 2003. Xingang company, which has the strength to research and develop leather technology, is responsible for the research and development of new technologies and new products. The Municipal Science and Technology Bureau is responsible for the promotion of new technologies and personnel training services. In this way, R & D units and production enterprises have built a bridge of mutual benefit and common prosperity.

      Xingang company has increased sales by researching and selling new products of leather chemical materials and providing technical services to enterprises; Leather enterprises have stepped out of the dilemma of developing new technology, and their market competitiveness has been enhanced; The government does not need to increase financial investment, and the technical level of the whole leather industry has been improved.

      In 2004, Xinji leather industry was faced with severe challenges: the EU announced a new leather import standard, which impacted 80% of Xinji leather exported. From 2004 to the first half of 2005, the city lost at least 30 million US dollars of orders.

     “ Through unremitting efforts, by the end of 2005, all EU indicators had been successfully broken.

      Li Chunyang, the chief engineer of the center, said with emotion: "today, our leather not only meets all the European Union targets, but also carries out a new transformation of the processing technology to a higher level of development."

      Goat fall grain deer skin like garment leather is very popular at home and abroad. However, due to the lack of goat skin raw materials, the demand for this garment leather is in short supply. At the end of 2005, aiming at the advantages of rich raw material resources of sheepskin, the center developed sheep shrink grain imitation deer skin garment leather with complete independent intellectual property rights, which was used to replace goat falling grain deer skin imitation garment leather. The product was launched on the market with sales revenue of 200 million yuan. Now all leather enterprises adopt this technology.

      The world of independent innovation is broad. In 2006, 126 technical difficulties were overcome in the city's leather industry, and the output value and sales revenue were increased by 20.3% and 16.3% respectively.

Editor in charge: Xu Qiyun