ABSTRACT
For several decades leather industry has been one of the important traditional industries in Taiwan. The produced finished leather are mainly supplying the downstream factories for manufacturing the leather goods of shoe, handbag, suitcase, gloves, belt and upholstery etc.
The major tanning material of leather industry in Taiwan is cattle hide and pigskin. However, due to the limitations of natural environments, inabundant land, dense population and lack of vast pieces of pastures, livestock husbandry cannot be well developed. Therefore, the volume of cattle raising is very little. The material as required by leather industry ¡V raw cattle hide almost completely relies on imports. As for the pig skin, the pig raising industry is very prosperous in Taiwan. Apart from supplying to the domestic markets to meet their needs, the produced pork was sufficient for exports in great volume, except the outbreak period of foot-and-mouth disease between 1999 and 2000. It seemed that material of raw pigskin should not be insufficient. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to change the consumption habit of the Taiwanese that they like to eat freshly-slaughtered pork so that most of the raw pigskin are attached to the pork and sold in the market. In this way, the pigskin loses its value for leather manufacturing. The material of raw pigskin as required by the leather manufacturing industry in Taiwan also has to rely on imports.
As mentioned above, there is a lack of raw material for tanning industry. And the size of domestic market of leather goods manufactured by raw cattle hide is so small that the products have to rely on export tremendously. Despite these circumstances, the tanning industry has been standing firmly in Taiwan for several decades, and occupying a outstanding position in the world. This study focuses on this issue and make further investigation. In the tanning industry of Taiwan, although many of the factories of finished leather product in the downstream have been migrated to some Southeastern Asia countries and the Mainland China where the labor cost is low, but the finished leather these factories currently need still has to rely on the supply by the tanneries in Taiwan. Therefore, in recent years, the export amount of leather goods in Taiwan has been immensely shrinking, whereas the export amount of finished leather has grown by three times when compared with the export of ten years ago. The results of the study show that the key success factors of tanning industry in Taiwan are: 1. Long history of the industry and rich experience. 2. Close to the market, with ability to respond to the market rapidly. 3. High entrance barrier brings about less threats from the local potential competitors. Meanwhile, this study gives the tanneries of Taiwan some suggestions for maintaining their competitiveness, hoping that they can be of some help to the tanning industry in Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0705102-110726 |
| Date | 05 July 2002 |
| Creators | Fang, Hung-Tsai |
| Contributors | Der-Fa Robert Chen, David Shyu, Chang-Yung Liu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0705102-110726 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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