Kazakhstan leather production drops 10%

Kazakhstan's National Statistics Agency reports that Kazakhstan produced 49 million square decimetres of leather from cattle hides in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year fall of 10.7%, according to the Interfax news agency. Kazakhstan also produced 21,700 square decimetres of sheep, pig and goat leather, a year-on-year increase of 60%. Kazakhstan produced 18,004 tonnes of chrome tanning agent in the January to September period, a year-on-year increase of 34.1%.