PVC Will Be Replaced By PU in The Development Trend Of Environment-friendly Artificial Leather.

With the progress of economic development, leather plays a more and more important role in people's daily life, and cheap and high-quality artificial leather has also become the most beloved product. Now the artificial leather industry has developed into one of the important industries in the daily consumer products industry. At present, PVC artificial leather occupies a dominant position, but because the air permeability and hygroscopicity of PVC artificial leather are relatively poor, its development has been limited in recent years. Pu leather has gradually replaced the traditional PVC artificial leather.

At first, the main raw material of artificial leather is PVC, but with the continuous progress of science and technology, people find that there are many big problems in the use of PVC, and the pollution is also very serious, especially after exposure to the sun will produce toxic gases, leading to cancer. Although the state has not explicitly banned PVC products for the time being, with the gradual increase of the concept of environmental protection and the continuous improvement of the technical level, many domestic artificial leather enterprises are aware of this problem and continue to improve their technology, and the PU that replaces PVC appears. Especially in recent years, the more restrictions on the development of PVC, the number and scale of PVC plants are not as good as before.

PU leather is more environmentally friendly than PVC. At present, PU can be used as a substitute for materials that use PVC. Many domestic manufacturers have noticed the application of PU leather in leather, using advanced technology to greatly reduce its production cost and form a perfect industrial chain. It is understood that there are still many products that still use PVC, but these enterprises have slowly begun to transform to the production of PU leather. With the acceleration of the integration of the international market, the advantages of high quality and low pollution of PU leather will become more and more obvious. All kinds of high-performance PU leather products will continue to be pushed to the market. Although PU products will have an adjusted growth period, it is an inevitable trend for the development of synthetic leather industry to eventually replace PVC products in mainstream products.

However, people generally refer to the products of these two materials as artificial leather. Although PVC and PU are the main raw materials of PVC, the manufacturing processes of these two products are not the same. The price of PU leather is more than double that of PVC leather, and the price of some special PU leather is 3 times higher than that of PVC leather. Even so, the profit space of PVC for many years of competition and development is now very narrow, and some varieties have only a few cents or even a few cents per meter. In fact, in theory, with the continuous upgrading of the industry and the continuous improvement of technology, PU should have a more price advantage than PVC in the future.

In terms of service life, general pu leather can only be scrapped with 4Mel 5 times; PVC leather has a long service life, so the current artificial leather market is still dominated by PVC, after all, new products need a certain buffer time to eliminate old products.