Affected by the global epidemic and the global economic downturn, China’s bovine skin import has been stopped since last August, 2021. At the same time, most leather factories in China and Southeast Asia have stopped production. The shutdown of leather factories led to the cease production of more than 95% of Chinese gelatin enterprises(bovine skin source), because the raw materials of these factories mainly came from the leftovers in leather factories.
Fortunately, we are now the only few gelatin factory with continuous production of bovine source gelatin in China, because our factory can do fur raw material pretreament process independently.
But it still affects the normal gelatin production, including our factory. Previously, fresh fur bovine skin was put into the flow line of the production process in leather factories, and the process of raw material pretreatment time was as long as 2 months. When the treated leather was transferred to the gelatin production plant, the process time of gelatin would take another 10 days, which means the production period from fresh fur bovine skin to gelatin is as high as 60-70 days before.
Although our factory can still carry out normal production, we couldn’t support the raw material pretreatment for 2 months in order to meet the delivery time of customers and considering the production cost, we can only shorten these two processes to around 15 days. Therefore, the color of gelatin produced now is slightly yellow and the transmittance is slightly lower than that of gelatin produced before. But the other inner parameters are maintained the same as before.
We anticipate the raw material shortage would last for at least one year as long as the global epidemic situation isn’t better.
Post time: Mar-16-2022
