Chinese leather earns tanners more
China’s large-scale tanneries posted an increase of 23.8% in the value of their production for the month of September 2010 compared to the same month last year, the China Leather Industry Association has said.
For the first nine months of this year, the state-run industry organisation said the value of its tanneries’ leather output had increased by 24.5% compared to the same period last year.
The organisation put the value of the nine months’ worth of leather at $14.1 billion.