Leather-cutting ‘excellence’ is Ecco’s aim in Xiamen
14/10/2019
It has installed up-to-date cutting machinery at the plant and added a series of measures that will make the facility environmentally efficient. Minimum use of energy and maximum use of leather are key factors in this.
The new plant has rooftop photovoltaic solar panels, providing enough renewable energy to cover the cutting plant’s energy needs, with a surplus that the Ecco tannery in Xiamen can use. The solar panels cover an area of 4,500 square-metres; the cutting plant’s total area is just over 7,000 square-metres.
Ecco’s total presence in Xiamen now comprises a footwear factory that it opened in 2005, the tannery, which opened in 2008, and the cutting plant. It now employs 3,200 people there.
Image shows the opening ceremony at the new Ecco Leather-cutting plant in Xiamen, with Zhang Binna (left) from the local authority and Ecco Leather chairman, Dieter Kasprzak, cutting the ribbon. Credit: Ecco.
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