Project Rationale

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Project Rationale

The leather industry of the Russian Federation and Mongolia reached its high rate of development in the 1980s. However, with the transition to market economy there was a significant reduction in tanneries, an assortment of products and a shortage of qualified personnel.

The mam solutions of the problems in this segment are:

quality of leather raw materials;

ecological problems;

recycling of collagen-containing raw materials;

lack of qualified staff.

Currently, the production of leather industry both in Russia and in Mongolia is slowly but steadily growing. Prospective directions of development of this segment are:

the ecologization of leather production and the use of chromium-free tanning methods;

the ecologization of leather production and the use of chromium-free tanning methods;

The main solutions of the problems in this segment are:

stimulation of the development of the domestic raw materials production, in particular, the increase in the number of livestock and the improvement of the quality of hides and skins;

stimulation of processing leather production wastes;

introduction of innovative technologies to improve the environmental safety of production processes;

closer and advanced integration and cooperation of industrial enterprises with educational institutions.

To implement the above solutions, four training and innovation centers (Leather Hubs) will be set up in four universities in Russia and Mongolia.