26/10/2014
Urged the manufacturers to develop a "production" to provide added value
«Trade»: the local leather industry is primitive and the support depends on the development of factories
While criticizing investors in industry, leather tanning in the absence of Government support for their activity, trade Ministry sources described the leather industry as very primitive, and deserves support, as it is not considered of value added, pointing out that the leather industry in several stages until the manufacture of leather products that we use, but the factory is advanced enough to produce these leather products developed, but only one factory specializes in footwear industry. The source said-anonymity-I've conferred with leather manufacturers and urged them to develop production, so as not to bore the factories ' specific ' production phase without any added value, they did not pay attention to these directives, believing that they earn enough profit, thus moving away from the marketing challenges, which may be cheaper in European countries.
He explained that local factories only to the first stage of industry and remove meat and grease from the skin, resulting in a huge amount of water mixed with chemicals seriously damage the environment and then export those leather to India and European States, which completed its manufacturing operations, which raises the price of the piece, without adding value to industry and the economy of Saudi Arabia, which does not encourage the support and facilities. And on the support mechanism for the industry, stressed the source they come from development to production in the industry, so as to increase levels of tanning, otherwise only the first stage in the manufacturing, production of luxury craft, which requires the cooperation of all investors to form federations and clusters of manufacturers, to develop factories to ensure they engage in advanced stages of production to global competition, through manufacturing and not limit themselves to the leather tanning, but entering in the field of clothing and accessories based on the leather industry.
He continued, this development also requires the cooperation of various government agencies in the State, to enable the Ministry to build industry support through support to the national program of industrial clusters in locations far from urban groundwater, with private security guards, a special website for all plants, skins, and a desalination plant for the output of leather factories. He could be under the management of industrial property authority, and the Ministry in collaboration with the advisory offices provide strategic studies, having allocated the Ministry of municipal and Rural Affairs and to industrial property authority to create the desired compound to the Export Development Corporation in cooperation with factories for marketing their products internationally, with industrial development fund provides a special program for industry and provide the necessary facilities, and financing mechanisms provide the mechanisms and supplies to ensure a clean production and environment-friendly.
Khaled Al daqal, was an investor in the tanning industry, told to ' economic ' earlier that Saudi Arabia exports about four million pieces of leather, an estimated 10 million miles, equivalent to 10,000 tons, during four days, adding that the number of factories specializing in leather-tanning industry in Saudi Arabia is 12 plants, and benefit greatly from these skins. The Kingdom is considered the primary source of all leather factories around the world, with factories preparing leather for manufacturing to be exported in the form of semi-manufactured ' skins ' for India, Pakistan, China, Italy, and France, Spain and Argentina and Turkey, to foreign factories to coloring ' Pro ', and then manufactured as handbags, shoes, coats, leather furniture, and then re-exported to Saudi markets.
Al daqal noted that the leather industry today has many challenges, most notably the bulk of employment activity on the black market, and who trade violation in the leather and wool which wasted opportunities on the 12 factories operating in Saudi Arabia, but that the Western region, and because of the pilgrims where all year, they need to find more factories to take advantage of the skins lost, the industrial property authority to expel the manufacturers of industrial cities with lack of desalination plants the plants industrial Leather.
