In China, people are used to calling artificial leather produced with PU resin as raw material PU artificial leather (PU leather for short); Artificial leather produced from PU resin and non-woven fabric is called PU synthetic leather (abbreviated as synthetic leather). Traditionally, the above three types of leather are collectively referred to as synthetic leather. How to name it exactly? It needs to be unified and standardized by everyone to give it a more appropriate name.
Artificial leather and synthetic leather are important components of the plastic industry and are widely used in various industries of the national economy. Artificial leather and synthetic leather production have a history of over 60 years of development internationally. China has been developing and producing artificial leather since 1958, and it is one of the earliest industries in China's plastic industry. In recent years, the development of China's artificial leather and synthetic leather industry is not only the growth of equipment production lines, product output, variety and color of production enterprises, but also has its own industry organization and considerable cohesion in the process of industry development, so that China's artificial leather and synthetic leather enterprises, including related industries, can be organized together and developed into a powerful industry.
After more than 30 years of dedicated research and development by technology experts, PU synthetic leather has achieved breakthrough technological progress as an ideal substitute for natural leather, following PVC synthetic leather.
PU coating on fabric surfaces first appeared on the market in the 1950s, and in 1964, DuPont developed a PU synthetic leather for use as shoe uppers. After establishing a production line with an annual output of 600000 square meters, a Japanese company has achieved rapid growth in product quality, variety, and output of PU synthetic leather after more than 20 years of continuous research and development. Its performance is getting closer and closer to natural leather, and some performance even exceeds natural leather, reaching a level where it is difficult to distinguish between true and false natural leather, occupying a very important position in human daily life.
