National Engineering Laboratory for Clean Technology of Leather Manufacture has been approved for construction since June 2008 by the National Development and Reform Commission for resolving the key, bottleneck and common problems in leather industry. The Lab also has the post-doctoral station in the field of the light industry technology and engineering. The main duty of the Lab is to integrate and transform the advanced processes, chemicals serving to China leather industry. The Lab covers an area of 5500 m2and has more than 74 million in equipments investment. Currently, the Lab has 42 fixed staffs, among them, one is the member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, one is the chairman ofInternational Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies, one is the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, one is the National Outstanding Teacher, nine of them are the science and technology leaders of Sichuan province, five of them are outstanding experts of Sichuan province and six of them are selected by Ministry of Education as “cross (new) century excellent talents training Plan”. There are also more than 60 temporary researchers working in the Lab. The comprehensive research capacity of the Lab is at the top level in leather chemistry and engineering among the domestic and foreign laboratories. The Lab has become a sustainable high-level personnel training base with international standards and self-training ability. The academic team of the Lab has deep academic attainments, rigorous scholarship, creative ability and reasonable age structure. It has been generating its own research features. The basic and applied researches are integrated, and the development of application technologies and engineering are promoted by the achievements of basic researches. In recent years, the Lab undertook a number of key research projects, mainly related to National Sci-Tech Support Program, 863 High-technology Project, National Natural Science Fund of China and Projects supported by province, ministry and companies. Meanwhile, these achievements have been widely used in leather industry and light chemical industry, environmental protection and other fields and make a positive contribution to the national economy.
