PU and TPU eco-friendly artificial leather is becoming a development trend - Guangyuan Ruifeng New Materials

Category: Leather field

Release Time: 2020-06-22

Summary: With economic development, leather plays an increasingly important role in people's daily lives, and inexpensive and high-quality artificial leather has become a favorite product. The artificial leather industry has now become one of the important industries in the daily consumer goods industry. Currently, PVC artificial leather dominates the market, but due to its relatively poor breathability and hygroscopicity, its development in recent years has been somewhat limited, and PU leather and TPU leather are gradually replacing traditional PVC artificial leather.

With economic development, leather plays an increasingly important role in people's daily lives, and affordable and high-quality artificial leather has become a favorite product. The artificial leather industry has now become one of the important industries in the daily consumer goods industry. Currently, PVC artificial leather dominates the artificial leather market, but due to its relatively poor breathability and hygroscopicity, its development in recent years has been somewhat limited, and PU leather and TPU leather are gradually replacing traditional PVC artificial leather. (Environmentally friendly products, PVC environmentally friendly products)

Initially, the main raw material for artificial leather was PVC. However, with technological advancements, people discovered many significant problems with PVC during its use, and it also caused severe pollution, especially the release of toxic gases under sun exposure, leading to cancer. Although the government has not yet explicitly banned PVC products, with increasing environmental awareness and technological improvements, many domestic artificial leather companies have recognized this issue and are continuously improving their technology, leading to the emergence of PU and TPU as replacements for PVC. In recent years, PVC development has faced increasing restrictions, and the number and scale of PVC factories have significantly declined.

PU and TPU leather are more environmentally friendly than PVC. Currently, PU can replace any material using PVC. Many domestic manufacturers have noticed the application of PU leather in the leather industry and have used advanced technology to significantly reduce its production costs, forming a complete industrial chain. It is understood that many products still use PVC, but these companies have begun to gradually transition to the production of PU leather. (Environmentally friendly products, PVC environmentally friendly products)

With the acceleration of international market integration, the high quality and low pollution advantages of PU and TPU leather will become increasingly apparent, and various high-performance PU leather products will continue to be introduced to the market. Although PU products will have an adjustment growth period, replacing PVC products in mainstream products is an inevitable trend in the development of the synthetic leather industry.

However, people generally refer to products made from these two materials as artificial leather. Although both PVC and PU use polyvinyl chloride as the main raw material, the manufacturing processes of these two products differ. The price of PU leather is more than double that of PVC leather, and the price of some special PU leather is 2-3 times higher than that of PVC leather. Despite this, due to years of competition and development, the current profit margin of PVC is very narrow; for some varieties, the profit margin is only a few cents or even a few tenths of a cent per meter. Theoretically, with continuous industry upgrades and technological improvements, PU and TPU leather should have a greater price advantage over PVC in the future. (Environmentally friendly products, PVC environmentally friendly products)

In terms of service life, PU and TPU leather generally only last 4-5 uses before being discarded; PVC leather has a longer service life. Therefore, the artificial leather market is still dominated by PVC, as new products need a certain buffer period to replace old products. (Environmentally friendly products, PVC environmentally friendly products)

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