What is Automotive Leather? Which leather is best for cars?

1. What is Automotive leather?
Automotive leather is the ideal material for automobile interior seats. The characteristics and excellent durability of leather materials cannot be replaced, especially its service life and durability. Even if some parts of the automobile may rust, the automobile leather, if handled properly, will always remain in its original state. Automotive leather is suitable for seats, steering wheels, door handles, and other automotive interiors.

2. Are all car leather genuine leather?
Automobile leather is not necessarily genuine leather. Now there are many genuine leather used by the original automobile manufacturers, which are said to be genuine leather, but in fact, most of them are equipped with leather and artificial leather, because the physical properties of artificial leather will be better than genuine leather, and the durability will be longer than genuine leather. Therefore, more people will use PVC or PU artificial leather to replace genuine leather. The environmental emission requirements are also very up to standard, and the flame retardant and wear-resistant is also better than genuine leather.

3. What is car leather made of?
There are different kinds of automobile leather, and the materials of making them are also different.
Automobile leather can be divided into the following three kinds of leather: 1. Artificial leather: artificial leather is the main material of vehicle leather. PVC artificial leather with PVC resin as raw material, PU leather with PU resin as raw material, and synthetic leather with PU resin and non-woven fabric as raw material. Nowadays, most of the artificial leather seats on the market are made of PU polyurethane. The greatest advantage is low cost and durability. Some of them have the properties of artificial leather The practicability is not even worse than that of leather. 2. Super fiber leather: super fiber leather is a kind of relatively advanced artificial leather, which is fully called ultra-fine fiber reinforced leather. The surface layer of super fiber leather is a composite of a thin polyurethane layer, and the bottom layer is a substrate prepared by ultra-fine fiber non-woven fabric through impregnated polyurethane. It feels very close to leather, and is resistant to low temperature, wear and tear. It is not easy to crack. More importantly, there will be no pollution from production to use, Superior environmental performance, so it is widely used in medium and high-grade models. 3. Leather: there are many kinds of leather. It is a product that meets the requirements of people's use through physical and chemical processing processes such as meat removal, degreasing, depilation, softening, fatliquoring, tanning and dyeing. Generally speaking, it has good durability, is not easy to rot and damage, and the treatment technology is also very different. The quality, grade and price are also divided into many grades, The most commonly used in cars is the first layer of cow leather or the second layer of cow leather.

4. What kind of leather is most suitable for cars?
At present, due to the increase of automobile consumer goods and the lack of natural resources, the cost is much higher than that of super fiber leather, so the number of leather used in automobile leather is less and less, and people will choose super fiber leather to replace leather.
Micro Fiber leather is a new material rising with the development of textile technology. It not only has a structure similar to natural leather, but also has a similar appearance perception and touch to natural leather. It is difficult to distinguish the difference between them in appearance. Therefore, microfiber leather is commonly used to replace leather in automobile leather.

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