Footwear Enterprises Are Duty Bound In The Low Carbon Era

After the conference, we entered a low carbon era. According to the commitment, the carbon emissions per unit GDP in China decreased by 40%-50% in 2020 compared with 2005. The so-called low carbon is not only a slogan and a concept, but a long-term interest of our country. Leather enterprises are duty bound to do so.

As Xu Yong, honorary chairman of the China Leather Association, said, "we should raise the low carbon economy to the height of the industrial development strategy, take the power of the whole industry, actively respond to the challenges, and push the industry to take the road of sustainable development with quality and efficiency, resource-saving and environment-friendly." He also pointed out that we should "guide the eco leather with genuine leather, advocate green consumption and support low carbon economy."

Fortunately, the leather signs and ecological leather enterprises have not failed to meet expectations. They have demonstrated the effect in energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection. The products catered to the demand of consumers' green consumption, won the recognition of the market, and achieved a win-win situation of low carbon, environmental protection and economic development.

Source: green purchasing standard

At the supplier conference, the "green procurement criteria for shoes and shoes" was distributed to over 200 raw materials suppliers from all over the country, marking the first action of the company to launch "low carbon" leather shoes among many shoe manufacturers in China.

"This is our access threshold for raw material suppliers. After we purchase raw materials and choose suppliers, we will gradually assess this standard. If we fail to meet this standard, we will not be able to do business with us." The chairman of the shoe industry said to reporters that green, environmental protection and low carbon will be the trend of the footwear industry in the future.

As a shoe manufacturer, green procurement will be regarded as the primary task. By formulating strict production standards, technological processes and ensuring first-class quality, the products with high quality and low pollution can be realized by using environmentally friendly, low carbon, non-toxic, recyclable materials. Advanced technology and innovative design concepts are adopted to improve the added value of products, which not only meets the individual needs of consumers, but also protects consumers' physical and mental health and safety, and further expands the brand's influence in the international market industry.

Technological innovation: Leather seamless bonding technology of Xiang Da

Catering to the law of economic development and meeting the challenges brought by low carbon economy, Hengda took the lead in combining the direction of national economic transformation, and successfully integrated low-carbon economy into the development of enterprises. The invention "leather seamless bonding technology" has positive effects on environmental protection and resource conservation.

This shoemaking technology not only saves raw materials and reduces costs, but also reduces the environmental impact of various gases such as ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane and other gases in the world. Because of its huge economic and environmental benefits, the "seamless adhesive technology for leather" is worthy of the glory of national invention patents.

Hengda provides foresight guidelines for leather shoes industry to achieve leaping development in the low carbon economy era, and also brings inspiration to many developing small and medium shoe enterprises.

Equipment transformation: high investment and high return

As a representative of eco leather with genuine leather logo, the company attaches great importance to energy conservation and emission reduction, vigorously develops low-carbon economy, and pays great attention to the research and practice of environmental protection. Thanks to its excellent performance, it was awarded the first prize of the first "energy conservation and emission reduction environmental protection innovation award in leather industry". By 2008, it had invested more than 4000 yuan to purchase machinery and equipment and infrastructure. The development of low carbon economy needs huge investment, but this is also necessary.

Investment is huge and the rewards are gratifying. The company will apply the overloaded drum in the preparation section and tanning section of the tanning plant, as well as the recycling of the waste liquor and chrome tanning waste liquor, so that the electric power consumption of the ton leather will be reduced from 89 degrees to 67 degrees, and the electricity consumption can be saved by 150 thousand degrees per year. The tonnes of leather will save 7 tons of water, and the annual discharge of wastewater can be reduced by 110 thousand tons. In the year, 235 tons of sodium sulfide and 840 tons of lime were saved, and about 600 tons of cattle were recovered annually. The most important thing is that the output of cowhide wet blue has increased by 1 times.

How to reduce the production water and waste water discharge and eliminate the environmental pollution caused by harmful substances is a major and important issue in the future. That's what I said. {page_break}

The development of low carbon economy has great potential for enterprises.

According to Bole research, chairman of the global intelligent manufacturing organization and Dean of the SUPSI School of the Swiss University of Applied Science and technology, about 10 billion pairs of shoes are produced around the world, of which 300 million pairs of shoes are not sold because of quality, color and style. According to the production of a pair of shoes, it will waste three degrees of electricity calculation, which will waste 900 million degrees of electricity, equivalent to 14% of the total electricity consumption in Switzerland every year.

Because of the development of the industry, leather enterprises are promising. In 2003, the China Leather Association foresight the importance of green consumption. Following the "leather logo", the "eco leather" was launched. "Ecological leather" not only put forward higher requirements for various environmental indicators of finished leather products, but also stressed that all aspects of raw materials, production equipment and sewage treatment technology in the production process should reflect the concept of environmental protection. More than 30 excellent tanning enterprises have obtained the qualification of "leather logo eco leather", and the finished leather output accounts for 12.5% of the total tannery output. Through the leather logo and ecological leather work, the industry has formed a group of outstanding leather and leather products enterprises that are committed to developing low-carbon economy. The above-mentioned enterprises are among them.

Enterprises can learn from the excellent practices of these enterprises, and can also innovate with themselves. For example, cleaner production technology and equipment can be used to reduce the emissions of tannery pollutants; to eliminate backward materials, the traditional oil-based adhesive used for shoemaking is basically solvent type, and the discharged VOC is easy to form photochemical smog and cause harm to the human body. We need to consider the use of new water-based alternative materials; renew the shoe making equipment, replace the backward clutch motors with high efficiency and energy saving permanent magnet motors, and reuse the products that can be reused. The use of paper bags instead of plastic bags will be installed in recyclable shoes bags, while saving paper will greatly reduce the use of water.

Xu Yong, vice chairman of China Light Industry Federation and honorary president of China Leather Association, said: "the convening of the conference has declared the era of low carbon economy coming. For the traditional leather industry, it faces both severe challenges and a historical opportunity to accelerate the transformation of the development mode. When low carbon environmental protection becomes a fashion, leather logo enterprises should actively implement the environmental protection concept of energy conservation and emission reduction, and make unremitting efforts to achieve win-win results in the three aspects of economy, society and environment.