Microfiber Leather Will Lead The Development Direction Of Safety Footwear Industry

Since the trade standard of synthetic leather for protective footwear has been implemented since October 1, 2010, the famous safety protection footwear manufacturer, Shanghai Ampang Industrial Development Co., Ltd. has also targeted microfiber leather, and has pioneered the production of safety leather shoes in October 2011.

But what is microfiber leather?

The superfine fiber leather is known as "Microfiber Reinforced PU leather". The microfiber PU synthetic leather represents the development direction of artificial leather. Because it has the most similar properties of natural leather, it has excellent wear resistance, excellent cold resistance, breathability and aging resistance, so it is highly regarded by top brand designers at home and abroad.

Industrial production of artificial leather has been in the history for decades. With the continuous application of various new materials, its products are also constantly upgrading.

From leather woven fabric to today's nonwovens, leather is made from polyvinyl chloride, acrylic resin to polyurethane (PU), fiber from ordinary chemical fiber to lotus root fiber and superfine fiber.

In terms of product style, artificial tanning has gone through the development process from low to high grade, from profiling to simulation, and its characteristics even surpassed natural leather.

Microfiber synthetic leather is developed on the basis of fully analyzing natural leather.

Microfiber synthetic leather is made from bundled ultrafine fibers and polyurethane through special processing.

It is made of nylon superfine fibers similar to the structure and properties of bundled collagen fibers in natural leather. It is made of non-woven fabrics with three-dimensional network structure, and then filled with polyurethane with excellent performance and open pore structure.

The advantages of microfiber synthetic leather are: tear strength, high tensile strength, good folding resistance, good cold resistance, better resistance to mould, thick finished product, good simulation, and low content of VOC (volatile organic compound).

The surface is easy to clean, the structure is similar to the natural leather. The disadvantage is that the microfiber synthetic leather belongs to the scientific and technological product. It concentrates on the strong and powerful production enterprises at home and abroad, and has certain monopoly, resulting in high product price.

Ordinary PU leather uses fabric as the base cloth, with poor simulation and folding resistance without synthetic microfiber leather, but it has low cost, light weight, convenient processing and variety.

Artificial leather contains chemical components (especially plasticizers) which are harmful to the human body. The VOC content is high. It is easy to volatilize at high temperature. It has strong rubber feeling, no touch and feel of natural leather, poor simulation, but low cost and convenient processing.

The source of natural leather is limited, and its quality varies with the origin and location of raw leather.

Natural leather has serious environmental pollution during processing, low yield and heavy weight, and easy to mold and rot.

Superfine fiber synthetic leather has many characteristics of natural leather, and even some physical and chemical properties are superior to natural leather. The product has uniform texture, small odor, light quality, good cutting ability, high automation cutting, high material yield, strength, tear resistance, breathability, handle, air permeability, fullness and so on, which are superior to natural leather.