2022-07-13

New application of mushrooms you can't think of -- mushroom leather

 1.What is mushroom (mycelium) leather？ Mushroom leather is made of mycelium, which is a nutrient component of hypha. It is a natural material that is very friendly to the environment and can be used to replace animal leather. The mycelium exists below the visible surface of fungi and consists of many branched hypha, which develop around to form a fast-growing complex network. When fungi are implanted into a suitable matrix, hypha will stick the matrix like glue.

2022-07-13

Use of foreign invasive species as raw material

At present, under the influence of many factors such as animal protection and sustainable development, the fashion industry is more actively exploring the alternative choices of traditional animal leather. A few days ago, Inverse, a company founded in 2020, is trying to turn lion fish, an alien invasive species in some waters, into a product: fish skin leather.

2022-07-13

Mangoes Leather-Turning waste into treasure!

As the mango trading center in Europe, the number of mangoes imported by the Netherlands accounts for more than half of the total imports in Europe every year. However, due to logistics or storage environment, many damaged and rotten mangoes are directly discarded, which causes waste and has a certain negative impact on the environment. Fruit leather, a Dutch start-up founded in 2015, put forward a new idea to solve this problem: recycle these discarded mangoes and make them into "vegan leather".

2022-07-13

Carbon neutralization

Carbon neutralization | choose a more environmentally friendly lifestyle! Use biological based products to replace traditional petrochemical products to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide. The data comes from the economic impact analysis made for the American biological based product industry(2019) When the product’s life span ends, the subsequent disposing means often leads to the emission of carbon dioxide, especially for the remaining plastic packaging.

2022-07-13

Biological based product-the preference of environmentalists

There are more and more people who pursue low carbon and environmental friendly life. The utilization of biological based products made of renewable materials is more and more favored by consumers.

2022-05-11

Leather industry must reassess dependence on China

May 3 leather business in its website business released the latest issue of leather market information report, the core content of this report is, leather industry need to "re-evaluate" the dependence on China. The 21st century China leather industry has created a great success story, at present, China is the world's largest leather production country, is also leather and leather products largest consumer country.

2022-05-06

Haining Leather City's ten years of sinking and floating: how is the fur industry today?

Zhejiang Haining does not produce a sheepskin, but is the capital of Chinese leather. "Buy leather clothes to Haining - Haining Leather City", behind a slogan is Haining nearly a century of leather manufacturing history. From Jiaxing railway station to the south an hour's drive will be able to Haining Leather City. Leather City market construction area of 1.6 million square meters, more than 6,000 operators, annual turnover of tens of billions of yuan, is currently the largest and most influential leather professional market in China.

2022-05-05

Portuguese footwear industry invests 140 million euros to improve sustainability

A footwear industry sustainability initiative launched by the Portuguese Association of Footwear, Accessories and Leather Products Manufacturers (Apiccaps) and the Portuguese Centre for Footwear Technology (CTCP) says that over the next three years, the Portuguese footwear industry will invest 140 million euros to provide "sustainable solutions" for the country's footwear industry. More than 50 percent of the project will be funded by A

2022-05-05

Foreign garbage or raw materials? Imported leather and fur trimmings properties to determine the Customs will have a standard to follow

Recently, the General Administration of Customs of China officially issued the "imported solid waste identification methods Textile Raw Materials and Products Part 4: Leather Fur" (SN/T 5431.4-2022) (hereinafter referred to as "imported solid waste identification methods"), and on October 1, 2022 officially implemented. The introduction of the identification method, in promoting the national crackdown on foreign waste imports at the same time, but also effectively guide the import of available leather fur trimmings in the classification, packaging and other aspects of standardized management, to ensure the reasonable rights and interests of enterprises, promote the leather industry related enterprises of the key Kang orderly development.