2023 Cowhide Sofa Leather "Industry University Research" Integration Seminar

In order to deepen industry university research cooperation, build a good bridge for school enterprise cooperation, promote communication and exchange between enterprises and universities, and solve practical problems encountered by enterprises in the production process, on May 22, the "2023 cowhide sofa leather 'industry university research' integration seminar" hosted by CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD was held in Chengdu. Chen Zhanguang, Vice Chairman of China Leather Association, Sang Jun, Secretary General of National Leather Industry Standardization Committee, Zhao Liguo, Deputy Director of Brand Department of China Leather Association, Professor Peng Biyu, Dean of School of Light Industry Science and Engineering of Sichuan University, Li Kaihua, Executive Chairman of Sichuan Leather Industry Association, Song Hanbing, Secretary General of Sichuan Leather Industry Association, Chen Xiaobo, Chairman of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD, Ding Yichao, General Manager of Gujia Home Furnishing Procurement Management Center, and other major leaders and general managers of some key leather chemicals enterprises, including Ding Xuedong, General Manager of Sichuan Desai New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Xu Xuming, General Manager of Southwest China of Lansheng (Changzhou) Co., Ltd., and General Manager of Chengdu Pengzhou Mingzhong Chemical Co., Ltd. Manager Zhou Lin, General Manager of Starr Fine Coatings (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. Wei Xianglin, A total of 68 industry professionals attended this seminar.

● The school enterprise joint laboratory was established and listed

At 9:30 a.m., witnessed by the guests, CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and Sichuan University Ecological Furniture Leather Development Joint Laboratory were officially launched in Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry R&D Center. Professor Peng Biyu and Chairman Chen Xiaobo jointly unveiled the laboratory.

Professor Peng Biyu (right) and Chairman Chen Xiaobo unveiled the joint laboratory of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and Sichuan University Ecological Furniture Leather Development

At the inauguration ceremony, Professor Peng Biyu delivered a brief speech. He first congratulated CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and the Ecological Furniture Leather Development Joint Laboratory of Sichuan University on behalf of Sichuan University, and extended a warm welcome to the leaders and guests present to witness the moment. Professor Peng Biyu pointed out that efficient intelligence, green production, intelligent manufacturing, and the functionalization and ecologicalization of products are the development trends of the leather industry. Technological innovation is the driving force for the high-quality development of the leather industry, and enterprises are becoming the main body of technological innovation. The establishment of the joint laboratory will help Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry strengthen its dominant position in technological innovation, continuously enhance its innovation capabilities, support its transformation towards high quality and standardization, and shape new driving forces and advantages for development. In order to enhance the development impetus and technological innovation ability of enterprises, promote the combination of scientific research and production, rapidly transform scientific and technological achievements into productivity, and realize the complementary advantages of schools and enterprises, CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and Sichuan University jointly build a joint laboratory for the development of ecological furniture leather, and will carry out multi-dimensional and in-depth cooperation around the development and transformation of key technologies for ecological furniture leather manufacturing, the formulation of standards, and personnel training, which will be conducive to giving full play to the advantages of both sides in technology and resources, improving the core competitiveness of enterprises, and promoting technological progress in the industry.

Professor Peng Biyu, Dean of the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering at Sichuan University, delivered a congratulatory speech

Li Kaihua, executive director of Sichuan Leather Industry Association, and Ding Yichao, general manager of Gujia Home Furnishing Purchasing Management Center, delivered speeches at the launching ceremony respectively, congratulating CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and the establishment of the joint laboratory of ecological furniture and leather development of Sichuan University. Li Kaihua said excitedly in his speech that, as an old leather man, he witnessed that Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry has grown from scratch and started a small business with difficulty to become a key development enterprise in the leather industry of Sichuan. Now, CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD and Sichuan University have jointly established a joint laboratory for the development of ecological furniture leather, which will be of great significance for enterprises to further move towards high-quality development.

Li Kaihua, Executive Chairman of Sichuan Leather Industry Association, delivered a congratulatory message

Ding Yichao said in his speech that the successful listing of the Joint R&D Center enables enterprises to rely on the technological research and development advantages of Sichuan University, combined with the platform advantages of Lanpai Company, to establish long-term and stable industry university research cooperation relationships, which is of milestone significance for the development of both parties and customers. He hopes that both parties can take this as an opportunity to deepen cooperation, solve technical difficulties in industry development, provide more scientific and rigorous solutions in the improvement and optimization of processing technology, and achieve value transformation, so as to jointly create more value for users.

Ding Yichao, General Manager of Gujia Home Furnishing Procurement Management Center, delivers a congratulatory message

After the listing ceremony, the attending leaders and guests, led by Chairman Chen Xiaobo, visited the Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry R&D Center, finished product exhibition hall, and production workshop, and systematically learned about the production management system and product research and development achievements of Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry.

Visit Lanpai Xinpu Leather Factory

Visit Lanpai Xinpu Leather Factory

Leaders and guests in attendance took a group photo at Lanpai Xinpu Leather Industry to commemorate the occasion

● The seminar on the integration of industry, academia and research was held

At 1:30 pm, the "Industry University Research Integration Seminar" officially began.

Meeting venue

At the meeting, Chen Xiaobo, chairman of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD, first introduced the development history and basic situation of Lanpai Xinpu Leather to the guests. Chen Xiaobo stated that Lan brand has been deeply involved in the leather industry for 38 years, focusing on cowhide sofa leather for 20 years. "Lan" is a famous trademark in Sichuan Province.

Chen Xiaobo pointed out that the leather industry is an ancient and traditional industry, with low equipment automation, low standardization, complex production processes, and difficult control. To this end, Lanpai has achieved higher quality development of the Lanpai brand and enterprise through continuous exploration and practice, starting from building a professional R&D team, improving production technology management level, establishing a sound modern enterprise management mechanism, and optimizing enterprise configuration.

Chen Xiaobo also expressed sincere gratitude on behalf of all employees of Lanpai Company to our long-term strong support for the company's development, including our partners Gu Jia Home Furnishings, suppliers, and industry associations. Chen Xiaobo said that in long-term cooperation, Gu's culture and advanced business philosophy have led Lanpai, helping it develop from an unknown small factory into the largest furniture leather production base in the western region. In the cooperation between both parties, Lanpai has grown and gained a brotherly bond of mutual help and closeness like a family!

Chen Xiaobo said that in the more than 20 years of enterprise growth, industry associations and chemical suppliers have been the strong backing of Lanpai. The industry association has provided Lanpai with sufficient policy guidance and professional policy interpretation, which has secured favorable conditions for improving the development of the industry. The chemical supplier has a long-term cooperation with Lanpai, and during the special period of epidemic prevention and control, various channels are used to ensure material supply, providing strong support for Lanpai's product sales.

Chen Xiaobo said that the road to success is never smooth. Faced with the difficulties and pain points of the entire enterprise and industry, Lanpai is actively exploring by establishing a joint laboratory with Sichuan University and conducting in-depth exchanges and cooperation with Gujia Home Leather Research Institute to obtain more theoretical knowledge and end customer usage data, identify the root causes of problems, and start to establish a database for handling difficult and miscellaneous diseases. In the future, Lanpai hopes to fully integrate various resources such as customers, suppliers, and research institutions, establish an IPD model that belongs to our leather industry, improve research and development efficiency and success rate, strengthen the systematic and refined management of QA and QC, promote the establishment of technical standard models, and provide guarantees for quality stability, laying a solid foundation for the stable development of enterprises!

Finally, Chen Xiaobo said that today we are holding a seminar on the "industry university research" of cowhide sofa leather. At the same time, we have signed a joint laboratory cooperation agreement with Sichuan University and a research cooperation agreement with Gujia Home Leather Research Institute. This marks a new development process for Lanpai Company and takes it one step closer to the dream of "growing into a refined and beautiful modern enterprise in the leather industry". Let's stick to our original intention, put users first, work hard, join hands and strive for a common dream!

Chairman Chen Xiaobo introduced the innovative development of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD to the guests

At the meeting, Chen Zhanguang, Vice Chairman of the China Leather Association, delivered a speech and shared industry information and development trends with everyone. Chen Zhanguang pointed out that since 2022, unexpected factors such as international geopolitical conflicts and frequent domestic epidemics have intertwined and had a huge impact on the overall economic development. As an industry with high external dependence and significant influence from the international market, the leather industry faces many challenges and development difficulties. Nevertheless, this industry has demonstrated strong resilience and risk resistance, and has relatively completed its production development tasks well in 2022. Overall, the five main industries in the leather industry had relatively low profit margins during the three-year epidemic period, but performed well in foreign trade exports, which also reflects the resilience, potential, and competitiveness of China's leather industry in the international market. Meanwhile, Chen Zhanguang stated that due to the influence of international geopolitics, the demand for high-end leather products in the international market has decreased, resulting in an overall downward trend in industry exports. In 2023, the overall development pressure on the industry should not be underestimated.

Chen Zhanguang analyzed the current development trend of the leather furniture market. Chen Zhanguang said that with the improvement of people's living standards and personality awareness, leather will be more widely used in furniture and home decoration, and the development of new energy vehicles has also brought new growth points to the leather industry. While seizing the new growth points of the industry economy, we also need to strengthen green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing, enhance awareness in brand quality leadership, product innovation, and other aspects, do a good job in product research and development upgrading, and better meet consumers' needs for a better life with high-quality, environmentally friendly, and fashionable products.

Chen Zhanguang pointed out that the leather industry has a complete industrial chain and strong development resilience. With the accelerated integration of technology into the industry, the leather industry should actively adapt to changes, focus on the development positioning of technology, fashion, and green industries, drive development with innovation, vigorously implement the strategy of consumer goods and industrial products, empower brands with design, strive to improve intelligent manufacturing level, continuously enhance product competitiveness, and effectively promote industry development.

Chen Zhanguang shared industry information and development trends with the attending guests

At the meeting, Professor Peng Biyu, Dean of the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering at Sichuan University, shared the latest technologies on the cleanliness of the leather making process, the efficiency of the production process, the functionalization, ecologicalization, diversification of products, and other high-value utilization pathways of animal skin. Professor Peng Biyu stated that there are still many technical issues in the current leather industry that require further in-depth research in future industry university research cooperation, combined with actual situations, to solve.

Professor Peng Biyu shares the latest technology

At the meeting, Ao Teng, head of the R&D center of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD, introduced three series of customized products for Gujia Home Furnishing - Vienna series, Cloud series and Pearl series. Ao Teng provided a detailed introduction to the research and development design concepts, physical properties, product styles, and color structure of three new product series. Ao Teng stated that Lanpai has always been committed to the research and development of new products with keen market insight, the ability to solve problems, and the logical power of innovative multidimensional thinking. In the future development, Lanpai will customize and develop more novel and market needed new products for Gu Jia.

New Product Release of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD

After a brief break, the attendees had in-depth and extensive discussions at the seminar.

Ding Yichao, General Manager of Gujia Home Procurement Management Center, delivered a speech pointing out that cowhide belongs to a relatively special category among all materials in the field of soft furniture such as sofas, with some natural properties. Therefore, due to some deviations in stance and professional cognition, there are many problems that need to be improved in the process of cooperation between upstream and downstream enterprises. Ding Yichao hopes to use the platform of the seminar to open up discussions and brainstorm ideas. At the same time, he also hopes that the joint laboratory and research center can make solving these specific problems a long-term research topic in the future.

Yan Wenjuan from the Gujia Home Furnishing Procurement Management Center introduced several topics and their background for the thematic discussion. The attending guests actively discussed common issues during the use of leather furniture, leather production standard management, and product quality control.

Professor Peng Biyu pointed out that there are many reasons for leather furniture peeling and peeling, such as wear and stains caused by improper use, corrosion of the leather surface caused by improper maintenance, and improper use of leather coloring and coating materials during the production process. We should analyze specific problems on a case by case basis. On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen quality control at the production end and improve technical processes; On the other hand, it is necessary to appropriately guide consumers' understanding of leather furniture and strengthen the promotion of leather furniture maintenance.

Sang Jun, Secretary General of the National Leather Industry Standardization Committee, stated that the causes of leather odor are complex and often difficult to detect in product quality testing. Currently, there is no specific odor control standard for leather furniture. In this regard, automobile leather production enterprises have done well. Our furniture leather production and manufacturing can also refer to automobile leather odor control methods to improve production processes and better meet consumer needs.

Chen Zhanguang, Vice Chairman of the China Leather Association, pointed out that the problems that arise during the use of leather products vary from person to person. In terms of technological research and process improvement, we should pay attention to consumers' demands and improve product quality. At the same time, we should also promote leather related knowledge to help consumers better establish their understanding of leather products. Finally, Chen Zhanguang expressed the hope that enterprises can discover and raise more problems in practice, and participate in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, and group standards with these problems. I hope colleagues in the industry can work together and strive for the high-quality development of the leather industry!

At the seminar, Chen Xiaobo, chairman of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD, signed a joint laboratory construction contract and a joint project research contract with Professor Peng Biyu, dean of the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering of Sichuan University, and Ding Yichao, general manager of Gujia Home Furnishing Procurement Management Center.

Sichuan University& Signing Ceremony of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD Joint Laboratory

Gu Home Furnishings& Signing Ceremony of Research Project of CHENGDU LANPAI-SYNPLUS INDUSTRYCO..LTD

The attendees took a group photo to commemorate the successful conclusion of the seminar