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Leather Industry

Preamble

The leather industry in India is predominantly unorganised and decentralised. Keeping in mind the variety of leather products and the different stages of the industry’s value chain, the production units can be broadly classified into following categories:

Tanneries, which process raw hide/skin to produce semi-finished and finished leather; Consumer goods production units, which produce leather products like safety and fashion footwear, as well as its components – saddles and harnesses, garments, gloves and other goods that use finished leather; and
Integrated units, which process raw hide/skin and produce downstream consumer goods.

Business Opportunity

A recent study by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) shows that the Indian leather market has been a fragmented one, with about 2,200 tanneries of which 2,100 are small-scale units, and over 8,000 leather product manufacturing units. The tanning industry is concentrated in three states viz. Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Of the total number of tanneries in India, Tamil Nadu accounts for 52%, West Bengal 23% and U.P. 12%.

Solar Thermal Interface Processes for Leather Processes.

Sector Energy replacement potential (ktoe/annum) Estimated monetary saving (Rs Million/annum)
Leather 17 1,026