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Leather Industry in India

• Leather Industry occupies a place of prominence
  in the Indian economy in view of its massive
  potential for employment, growth and exports.
  There has been increasing emphasis on its planned
  development, aimed at optimum utilization of
  available raw materials for maximizing the
  returns, particularly from exports. The leather
  industrial sector comprises of.

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Leather Industry in India

• a)tanneries (where raw hides and skins are
  converted into leather)
• b)factories transforming leather into a variety
  of consumer products such as footwear, garments
  and outerwear, and assorted leather goods such as
  wallets, passport cases, key chains, handbags and
  brief and the leather is provide by
  leatherfitters.com

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Leather Industry in India
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The leather Indian tanning industry

• More than 95 of the tanneries in India have
  pollution control devices. The clustered
  manufacturing has resulted in common effluent
  treatment plants. There are 19 common effluent
  treatment plants are operational in India and out
  of which 14 are operational in Tamil Nadu. More
  than 150 individual effluent treatment plants are
  operational in isolated tanneries and locations
  where the common facilities are not possible and
  the leather Indian tanning industry.

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The leather Indian tanning industry

• In Tamil Nadu alone about Rs.225 cores (US 56.25
  million) have been invested in pollution control
  devices since 1996
• In order to comply with recent legal compliance,
  the tanneries in Tamil Nadu have to meet zero
  liquid discharge norms, being this norm is not
  applicable even in industrialized countries. This
  will result in increased product cost of about
  12 over the cost of other tannery centers within
  India or outside India.

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The leather Indian tanning industry

• In order to meet the additional expenditure,
  Government of India is
• assisting the common effluent treatment plants by
  capital grants up to 75 of investment cost which
  will meet the recent legal requirement. Under
  this programmed, project with Government grant up
  to Rs.1000 millions are being implemented. For
  the remaining productioncentres in Tamil Nadu,
  project proposals have been submitted to
  Government with an project outlay of Rs.3000
  millions.
• Or leather is provide by leatherfitters.com

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The leather Indian tanning industry
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SIGNIFICANCE OF LEATHER INDUSTRY IN INDIA

• The Indian leather industry holds a significant
  position in the Indian economy in terms of high
  potential shown for employment, growth and
  exports. It is estimated that the industry
  employs around 2.5million work force directly or
  indirectly and 30 of the workforce are women.
  The skilled and semi-skilled workers constitute
  nearly 50 of the total work force. The graph
  below shows the percentage wise workforce
  employed in different segments of the industry

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SIGNIFICANCE OF LEATHER INDUSTRY IN INDIA
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SIGNIFICANCE OF LEATHER INDUSTRY IN INDIA

• It is among stone of the industries in which
  India has abundance of raw material(India is
  endowed with 21 of world cattle buffalo and
  11 of the world goat sheep population),
  adequately skilled manpower and technology, apart
  from compliance with all international
  environmental standards and support from
  associated industries. Since the last three
  decade the Indian leather industry has undergone
  a significant structural change, from being
  merely an exporter for raw materials during
  1960s to a preferred supplier of value added
  products, the industry is now one of the top ten
  foreign exchange earners for the country.

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ONICRAS OUTLOOKON SMEsIN LEATHER INDUSTRY

• TheIndianleatherindustryhasasignificantshareintheo
  verallexportsofthecountry.SMEs are the most
  important segment of this industry and close to
  80 per cent of the business of this industry
  comes from them. India is the second largest
  producer of footwear and leather garments in the
  world. Apart from the exports, Indias domestic
  market for leather and footwear products is also
  very lucrative

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ONICRAS OUTLOOKON SMEsIN LEATHER INDUSTRY
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Leather Industry Network

• An ideal leather industry network would comprise
  of the following
• Livestock (Cattle, Buffalo, Goat)
• Slaughter houses
• Raw Hide/Skin Collection
• Tanning Industry
• Leather Industry
• Other Allied Industries
• Export Market

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Leather Industry Network

• The other small industries that can co-exist
  within this network are the glue and manure
  manufacturing industries that utilize the bones
  and discarded organs of the slaughtered animals
  respectively. Besides, operating in close
  co-operation with the slaughter houses are
  corporations that have built their services and
  products around the meat-consuming market -
  processors of meat into various forms of fast
  food, processed meat transporters, deep freezer
  manufacturers, cattle feed 'enhancers', drug
  manufacturers who sell 'meat growth hormones' and
  antibiotics for cattle and even agribusiness'
  banks that will give loans only for cattle
  'producing'. Not to forget the fast-growing
  biotech industry.

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Leather Industry Network