Innovation And Exploration Of Synthetic Leather Industry

In the long history of history, people have summed up the rule that the growth of new things always goes through the process of inspection, examination and re examination. Only through constant verification of practice, can new things be accepted by the world.

This principle applies equally to our synthetic leather synthetic leather industry.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, synthetic leather as a new industry began to develop.

Today, though the industry has already gone through the sprouting process of "small lotus", the development of synthetic leather industry is still in the stage of continuous exploration.

Grow up and mature

From start to development, from development to exploration, the synthetic leather industry as a member of the plastics industry has experienced a special "treatment".

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The development of the market, shoemaking, furniture, bags, home furnishings, automobiles and other industries have become a hot area in the consumer market. In these areas, the synthetic leather material of artificial leather has become the "Darling" of the enterprise, mainly due to its own advantages and market situation.

Nowadays, artificial leather synthetic leather already has thousands of manufacturers of upstream raw materials and downstream products. The manufacturers of raw materials constantly improve the calendering, scraping, tape casting and other processes to continuously study the numerical matching of raw materials such as PU resin and color paste additives, and continuously design raw materials with rich color and various patterns, so that synthetic leather can be comparable to natural leather in terms of texture, touch and visual aesthetics.

On the other hand, natural leather resources are in short supply. Their market prices are soaring, and the production technology of synthetic leather is becoming more and more sophisticated. The market price of this new material is far lower than that of natural leather. This makes more and more enterprises see the advantages of synthetic leather, and choose artificial leather synthetic leather as raw material, while natural leather gradually loses favor in the market.

Statistics show that the annual output of synthetic leather and the demand in the international market are increasing every year.

In 2005, the output of synthetic leather in China was about 1 billion 600 million meters. By 2007, the synthetic leather in our country had reached 2 billion meters, and reached 2 billion 347 million meters in 2009.

The demand for synthetic leather in the world was 2 billion 551 million meters in 2005, and increased to 3 billion 573 million meters in 2010. The global market demand increased by 1 billion 22 million meters in five years. This growth data is enough to prove that artificial leather synthetic leather is in the market.

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Although the market dependence of synthetic leather materials in the world is growing, the trade policy for importing leather is also tightening.

For example, the European Union, as one of the largest importers of leather goods, has recently revised the REACH code for imported leather products, which limits the six valent chromium content of leather products to 3ppm.

The revision of this policy is no doubt that the manufacturing enterprises of artificial leather synthetic leather are indirectly required to make continuous efforts in changing the mode of production and increasing testing items.

The EU's leather import trade policy is only a microcosm of the whole international market, and China's synthetic leather manufacturing enterprises must follow the principle of "survival of the fittest".

Improve production technology standards, change production mode, and take high efficiency, high quality, high yield, low pollution, low consumption, low investment and other enterprises as the continuous pursuit of production goals.

Achievements in exploration

In the artificial leather synthetic leather industry, every enterprise will face the contradiction of "efficiency first, environmental protection first". How to find the best fit between economic benefits and green environmental protection in the fierce market competition is the goal that every enterprise has been exploring.

Now, the emergence of water-based synthetic leather is a major breakthrough in the synthetic leather industry.

To understand the advantages of waterborne synthetic leather, we need to compare the traditional synthetic leather to know where it is "new".

The traditional synthetic leather is mostly produced by solvent type resin. When the solvent is recovered, it needs a lot of water, electricity, manpower and land to operate in the recovery device, which increases the possibility of two pollution. The water based synthetic leather reduces the emissions of waste gas and waste water in the production process, and avoids the "three wastes" reappearance when recycling.

In terms of performance, waterborne synthetic leather has better water resistance, solvent resistance, abrasion resistance, scratch resistance and wrinkle resistance than synthetic leather made from solvent based resin, and its moisture permeability, air permeability and handle feel closer to the genuine leather.

At the Fifth China (Shanghai) International Leather Fair in 2014, Xie Xinming, President of the Lishui Xinke eco Synthetic Leather Research Institute, presented a large number of eco synthetic materials and new technologies to the exhibition.

Xie Zhenming said that waterborne synthetic leather can not only meet international environmental standards in performance, but also superior to oil-based synthetic leather in physical properties.

Even though the synthetic leather of water-based polyurethane has emerged in the synthetic leather industry, the industry has never stopped exploring the technology of environmental protection and environmental protection.

With the standardization of industry management and the improvement of production technology, the production cost has been reduced, the energy consumption has been reduced, and the products have basically met the requirements of environmental protection.

However, if artificial leather synthetic leather products are to be completely overturned, the problem of high cost, high pollution and high energy consumption still has a long way to go.

The growth of synthetic leather industry requires every enterprise in the industry to work hard. Only by insisting on actively developing environmental protection equipment, producing energy saving and environmental protection products, and accelerating the pace of industrial upgrading can we make the product's environmental protection quality higher and meet the needs of the entire consumer market.

In 2015, the Sixth China (Shanghai) International leather and leather synthetic leather industry exhibition will also carry forward the future. With the sense of responsibility of "exploring new goals of the industry and showing new demeanor of the industry", we will make an appearance in April 14, 2015.