Shoemaker Yuan Kui Completes Leather Embossing For Five Hundred Or Six Hundred Pairs Of Shoes A Day.

120 degrees! Yuan Kui sits in front of a machine. The red panel is displayed on the control panel.

The more than 40 fans were spinning rapidly over the 13 production lines. Yuan Kui's left rear side placed an extra floor fan, aimed straight at him. It was another hot summer tool for Kangnai shoe industry (Suzhou) limited to remove mung bean soup, essence oil and boiled water in hot weather.

Yuan Kui, 24 years old, has been in Kangnai for more than a year. His job is to print patterns on a piece of raw leather without pattern.

This leather embossing machine in front of us is like a large oven in a cake room. When pressed by a green button, it resembles metal.

The sliding platform is stretched out.

Put the mould with three-dimensional pattern on the worktable, then put the smooth leather on it, adjust the position and press it on board.

Start the button again, and the worktable will shrink as it puts the good flour cream in the oven.

In the 120 degree machine, bake it, and the smooth skin is printed with a design pattern.

At 120 C, it is only a general temperature for leather embossing. It is also very common at 150 C for different cortices.

This job does not seem difficult, but it tests patience and eyesight.

There is a slight mistake in the location of the original leather, and the patterns on the leather are in a direction of confusion. The patterns on the two feet of the left and right feet can not be symmetrical and can only be scrapped.

"How did it get through in the hottest days?" he laughed. "There's no good way. Heat is hot."

But when you work, you can't be distracted. Once the concentration is concentrated, it's not that hard. "Yuan Kui told reporters that the factory had taken care of it. Besides the extra fan, it had arranged a closer location for the embossing group from the workshop outlet to facilitate ventilation and cooling.

Even so, work in the dog days will still get wet through.

Summer clothes are short sleeves, sometimes accidentally touches the scalding workbench, "touch a blister!"

A day can almost five hundred or six hundred pairs of shoes to make leather embossing, this workload can not be underestimated.

He told reporters that the dormitories in the factory were air-conditioned and televisions, and they could relax very well after work every day.

Making a phone call with his wife and children, and returning home at weekends, the child's rush to shout "Daddy" in his arms is the biggest driving force for his work.

"Hot, tired, bitter, all right! I can earn money to support my family with my own hands. I feel satisfied and honored!"