What is regenerated leather, and how does it differ from artificial leather (TPU leather)? -- Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Category: Leather field

Release Time: 2020-06-24

Summary: Regenerated leather is made by pulverizing genuine leather or regenerated leather materials into leather fibers of a certain size. These fibers are then mixed with natural rubber, resin, and other materials, compressed into a filter cake, and heated. The surface fibers melt and become sticky, allowing the layers to be kneaded, bonded, and dehydrated to form the final shape. After drying, slicing, embossing, and surface treatment, the final product is obtained.

Regenerated leather is made by pulverizing genuine leather or regenerated leather materials into leather fibers of a certain size, then mixing them with natural rubber, resin, and other materials, compressing them into filter cakes; heating the filter cakes to melt the surface fibers to make them sticky, kneading, bonding, and dewatering the layers to form them, drying, slicing, embossing, and surface treating to obtain the final product. Is regenerated leather good? What are the differences between regenerated leather and artificial leather? Below, the editor of JuZhuang.com will introduce the information about regenerated leather. (TPU leather, mildew inhibitor, mildew-proof and antibacterial agent)

Leather is divided into natural leather (genuine leather), regenerated leather, and artificial leather (PU/PVC/TPU leather). Genuine leather is the original hide peeled from cows, sheep, pigs, horses, deer, or certain other animals, which is processed by leather factories to produce leather materials with various properties, strengths, feels, colors, and patterns, and is an essential material for modern genuine leather products. Genuine leather is generally composed of the epidermis (removed), dermis, reticular layer, and subcutaneous layer (removed). Among them, cowhide, sheepskin, and pigskin are the three major types of leather used in leather making.

I. Characteristics of Regenerated Leather

Regenerated leather combines the characteristics of genuine leather and PU, and is a very common leather material nowadays. Like genuine leather, regenerated leather has moisture absorption and breathability; well-made regenerated leather also has the same softness and elasticity as genuine leather, is lightweight, has strong resistance to extreme high and low temperatures, and is wear-resistant. Its shortcomings are that its strength is inferior to genuine leather of the same thickness, and of course inferior to PU, and it is not suitable for leather goods with high stress such as shoe uppers. Because the production process of regenerated leather is relatively flexible and can be adjusted in real time, by increasing the amount of natural latex and changing the process formula, products with various different hardness and strength can be made to compensate for its own shortcomings. Its later surface treatment is similar to PU, and in terms of surface texture and color, regenerated leather also has many innovative designs and new products emerging continuously. More importantly, it has a very competitive price, only one-tenth of genuine leather and three times that of PU, making it very cost-effective. (TPU leather, mildew inhibitor, mildew-proof and antibacterial agent)

Regenerated leather uses leather waste and scraps generated during leather processing, which are recycled and processed into high-value-added products. It is a commonly used auxiliary material in leather-related finished products such as leather goods, shoes, and furniture. As a core interlayer, regenerated leather has unparalleled texture, elasticity, toughness, moisture resistance, and processing adaptability, replacing cardboard; as a fabric, regenerated leather can present various effects through embossing, printing, and PU lamination, and is widely used in the manufacture of leather goods, furniture, book covers, etc.

II. Differences between Regenerated Leather and Artificial Leather:

Artificial leather is made by foaming or laminating various different formulations of PVC and PU on a textile or non-woven fabric base. It can be processed according to different requirements of strength, wear resistance, cold resistance, color, gloss, and pattern, and has the characteristics of a wide variety of patterns, good waterproof performance, regular width, high utilization rate, and a relatively low price compared to genuine leather. However, most artificial leathers cannot achieve the effect of genuine leather in terms of feel and elasticity; its cross-section shows fine air bubbles, fabric base, or surface film and dry artificial fibers. It has been a very popular material from the early days to the present, and is widely used to make various leather products or parts of genuine leather materials. Its increasingly advanced manufacturing technology is being widely used in the processing and manufacturing of two-layer leather. (TPU leather, mildew inhibitor, mildew-proof and antibacterial agent)

Currently, artificial leather that is very similar to genuine leather in characteristics has been produced and marketed. Its surface technology and the fiber structure of the base material are almost comparable to genuine leather, and its price is also reasonable. However, genuine leather and imitation leather (regenerated leather and artificial leather) are incomparable in terms of unique hygiene (natural pores and fibers) and durability. (TPU leather, mildew inhibitor, mildew-proof and antibacterial agent)

Keywords: What is regenerated leather, and how does it differ from artificial leather (TPU leather)? -- Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Related Solutions

Previous: Home TPU leather care tips - Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Next: TPU leather and other leathers: Differences - Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Guangan///Guangyuan,Guoyuan///Guangyuan,Ganguan///Guangyuan

Sorry，当前栏目暂无内容!

您可以查看其他栏目或返回 首页

Sorry，The current column has no content!

You can view other columns or return Home