Application And Development Of Microfiber Leather

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After nearly 50 years of development, the synthetic leather industry has become a major producer and consumer of synthetic leather and synthetic leather in the world.

In 2005, the total output of synthetic leather and synthetic leather reached 780 thousand tons.

At that time, the traditional craft in the whole industry was biased, the high-end products were few, and the products were not competitive.

In the market, high grade varieties such as garment leather, sofa leather, automobile decorative leather and so on rely heavily on imports. China is not yet a strong producer of artificial leather.

In 1970, Dongli, Japan began to develop suede.

The suede style suede leather made of 0.05D super fine polyester has begun to unveil the prelude to the microfiber era.

In 1983, suede leather with calf skin was developed with nylon superfine fiber.

In 1997, Asahi, Japan, used superfine polyester and Japanese termian to use ultrafine nylon as raw materials to produce various styles of garment microfiber leather.

Over thirty years, Japan's Microfiber

Products are enduring.

Although the dominance of the market has taken the biggest place in the market, the quality of the varieties and styles is still dominant. With the continuous improvement of technology and variety and variety of styles, Japan is enjoying a huge profit in the field of microfiber leather.

South Korea Daewoo imported 3 billion 500 million yen from 1993 to introduce equipment to start producing ultra-fine leather fabrics. In recent years, the production of microfiber leather has increased rapidly, and has become the second largest production base in South Korea.

The three Fang company of Taiwan, China, developed 1995 kinds of short staple fibers from the United States, and used toluene solvent extraction to produce microfiber leather.

After that, China's Yantai Wanhua and three aromathers co operated with three aromatic toluene dissolving technology and equipment to produce microfiber leather.

Then, Shandong's Tong Da, Wenzhou the Yellow River, Shanghai Huafeng and Wuxi double elephants and other manufacturers have gradually adopted this technology and equipment to produce amorphous Island microfiber leather.

In 2004, Xiamen Hongxin successfully tested the island short fiber technology and its products by independent research and development.

In recent years, foreign expansion is relatively small, and product development and characteristic quality are the main components. The six Japanese companies have different products and have their own characteristics and develop in their respective fields.

Their main products are the largest number of groceries, followed by footwear and clothing leather.

Analysis of production and application status at home and abroad

Generally speaking, foreign countries do not consider the authenticity of leather, they should consider the performance of leather, because of the unique environmental performance and physical properties of ultra-fine leather, so the super fiber leather has been widely applied in foreign countries.

The actual situation in China is that people generally do not know enough about microfiber leather. They think that the super fiber leather is a kind of non natural product, and has been recognized in the field of ordinary leather and has not recognized its excellent performance. Therefore, its application has not been reached to the general level abroad. However, with the continuous efforts of microfiber leather manufacturers, it has achieved substantial results, such as basically reaching the majority of people's recognition in the field of shoe materials.

1, shoe material market analysis

At present, the total number of shoes in the world is about 20 billion pairs.

In the Chinese market, there are more than 20 thousand shoe making enterprises in the whole country, more than 7200 large and medium-sized shoe making enterprises, and about 2200000 employees.

China has produced 10 billion pairs of shoes in 2006, nearly 7 billion pairs of exports and about 2000000000 pairs of domestic consumption. China's footwear industry has accounted for more than 60% of the world's footwear industry. China has become the largest footwear producer, exporter and consumer power in the world.

But most of China's footwear is mainly medium and low grade.

Among them, the annual output of leather shoes is about 3 billion pairs, accounting for 40% of the total output of leather shoes worldwide, and the market share of leather shoes is 85%.

Microfiber leather is commonly used in shoe materials, such as sports shoes, travel shoes, leather shoes, women's boots, labor insurance shoes, mountaineering shoes, roller skates, military boots and so on.

The application requirements of shoe material and leather are mainly the demand for the overall aesthetic feeling and comfort of shoes materials, the demand for functional and low cost, light weight and high physical properties (yellowing resistance, ultraviolet radiation, stripping, tearing, hydrolysis, deformation, adhesion, hot cutting, etc.); the adaptability requirements of the two processing technologies; the demand for environmental protection, which can be recycled or degraded.

2, automotive interior market analysis

The application of microfiber leather in the global automotive and yacht interior market.

In the international market, the output of imitation suede super fiber leather, especially in Japan, is increasing in two digits every year, reaching 2 million 848 thousand square meters in 2004, reaching 3 million 272 thousand square meters in 2005, and approaching 3 million 926 thousand square meters in 2005.

The Chinese market, which produces 6 million 370 thousand cars in 2006, is expected to produce more than 7 million 500 thousand cars in 2007, and more than 6 million 500 thousand vehicles in the first three quarters.

The annual output of cars exceeds 3 million, and the output of buses nationwide is around 1 million 600 thousand. At present, there are few applications of superfine leather. It is assumed that more than 5% of the interior fabrics will be replaced by "super fiber leather" in the future, and the market development space will be calculated on millions of meters.

3, other markets

Microfiber leather, as a new product, has a wide range of applications. It can also be widely used in sofa furniture, such as sofa, bedside, luggage, handbag and so on. It is used for clothing fabrics, such as leather, casual wear, jacket, breeches, etc. it is used for glove craft decoration, such as golf gloves, mobile phone covers, mouse pads, gift boxes, jewelry cabinet interior accessories, for military materials market, such as military boots, army gloves, military belts and so on.

Although the island fiber microfiber leather is a new product and good product, it has great vitality. But at present, the actual capacity and output of our country show that most of the manufacturers are not working well enough, and they are making efforts to carry out market development. The coming of spring in this product needs revolution. It is still necessary for all the ultra fine leather production factories to get out of the difficult situation. So the manufacturers do not invest easily. Even if they want to invest, they must make a detailed market analysis and research, and do not easily trust the judgment of the one or two people and firm up the enterprises.

At the same time, it is also believed that with the unremitting efforts of scientific and technological workers and market developers, people will get more and more knowledge of microfiber leather, and the application space of island microfiber leather will become larger and larger.