Standardized Conditions For Leather Industry: Small Enterprises Face Challenges From Now On

The Normative Conditions for the Tanning Industry regulates all new or expanded and existing tannery enterprises in China (excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao) from six aspects, including enterprise layout, enterprise production scale, process technology and equipment, environmental protection, occupational safety and health, and supervision and management, but excluding fur processing enterprises.

In terms of enterprise layout, it is required that new or reconstructed tanning enterprises must comply with national laws and regulations, industrial policies and industrial development plans, comply with the overall land use plan, land supply policies and land use standards, and strictly implement the environmental impact assessment system. In nature reserves, scenic spots, drinking water source protection areas, cultural protection areas and other environmentally sensitive areas, as well as within the scope of cultivated land and basic farmland protection determined in the overall land use plan, it is prohibited to establish tanning enterprises. At the same time, encourage the concentration of tanning enterprises production And centralized pollution control. In the tanning park, a centralized sewage treatment facility will be built to collect and treat the sewage of enterprises in the park in a unified manner, so as to ensure stable discharge up to standard.

In terms of process technology and equipment, this specification requires enterprises to use solid salt Raw leather In case of anti-corrosion treatment, the raw hides shall be shaken with salt before immersion, and the waste salt shall be recycled or treated separately to reduce the salt entering the tanning wastewater. At the same time, it is required that tanning enterprises should adopt water saving technologies such as rapid soaking to reduce water consumption and drainage. In the production process, enterprises should also adopt various cleaner production technologies to reduce the production of COD, ammonia nitrogen, volatile organic compounds, chloride ions and trivalent chromium. The standard conditions show that enterprises will be encouraged to use automation equipment to improve the automation level of the leather industry, and the use of chromium rich sludge and chromium containing sludge will be encouraged Leatherwear Recycling technology of crushed materials.

In terms of environmental protection, the Standard Conditions for Tanning Industry requires enterprises to implement the environmental impact assessment and completion environmental protection acceptance system of construction projects in accordance with the law, and strictly implement the pollutant discharge declaration, pollutant discharge payment and pollutant discharge permit system. The standard conditions also stipulate the discharge of major pollutants, require the total amount control indicators to be met, and require the establishment of pollution monitoring files and the quality management of self testing. The specification conditions also require that general industrial solid waste and hazardous waste should be safely disposed, and the disposal method should be consistent with the requirements of environmental impact assessment and completion acceptance approval. Environmental protection facilities are complete, pollution prevention and control facilities and automatic online monitoring facilities operate normally and effectively, and sound environmental management systems and environmental risk plans can be effectively implemented. In terms of the regulations on the prevention and control of heavy metal chromium pollution, it is required that the collection and treatment process of chromium containing wastewater should be reasonable and the facilities should be complete, so as to ensure the effective separation of chromium containing wastewater and comprehensive sewage, and the separate treatment should reach the standard.

In addition, the normative conditions have some requirements on occupational safety and health, requiring enterprises to meet the requirements of various relevant laws and standards, have corresponding occupational safety and health and fire safety conditions, establish and improve the management system of safe production, fire safety, occupational disease prevention and control, and implement the responsibility system. Workers in some designated places shall be required to wear protective masks and other protective equipment.

In terms of supervision and management, it is required that the new and reconstructed tanning enterprises meet the requirements of national laws and regulations and the normative conditions. The investment management, land supply, energy conservation assessment, environmental impact assessment, etc. of the enterprises must go through the relevant approval procedures. If they fail to pass the environmental impact assessment of the construction project, they are not allowed to start construction. The construction and production of projects under construction or projects that fail to pass the acceptance of completed environmental protection without the approval of environmental impact assessment, as well as projects that do not meet the conditions for safe production, shall be stopped.

The release and implementation of the standard conditions are of great significance to standardize industry investment behavior, avoid low-level repeated construction, promote rational industrial layout, improve resource utilization and protect the ecological environment.