Pvc Will Be Replaced By Pu And Environmentally Friendly Artificial Leather Will Become A Development Trend

With the progress of economic development, leather plays an increasingly important role in people's daily life, and cheap and good artificial leather has become the most popular product. The current artificial leather industry has developed into one of the important industries in the daily consumer products industry. At present, PVC artificial leather is the dominant artificial leather, but due to the relatively poor air permeability and hygroscopicity of PVC artificial leather, its development in recent years has been subject to certain restrictions, and PU leather has gradually replaced traditional PVC artificial leather.
At the beginning, the main raw material of artificial leather was PVC, but with the continuous advancement of technology, people found that PVC had many major problems in the process of use, and the pollution was also very serious, especially after being exposed to the sun, it would produce toxic gases and cause cancer. Although the country has not yet banned PVC products, with the gradual increase of environmental protection awareness and the continuous improvement of technical level, many domestic artificial leather companies have realized this problem and continuously improved technology, and PU, which replaces PVC, has appeared. Especially in recent years, the development of PVC has been subject to more and more restrictions, and the number and scale of PVC factories have been much smaller than before.
PU leather is more environmentally friendly than PVC. At present, PU can be a substitute for any material that uses PVC. Many domestic manufacturers have noticed the application of PU leather in leather, and have greatly reduced its production costs by using advanced technology, forming a complete industrial chain. It is understood that there are still many products that use PVC, but these companies have begun to slowly transform into the field of PU leather production. With the acceleration of the integration of the international market, the high quality and low pollution advantages of PU leather will become more and more obvious, and various high-performance PU leather products will continue to be introduced to the market. Although PU products will have an adjustment growth period, the ultimate replacement of PVC products in mainstream products is an inevitable trend in the development of the synthetic leather industry.

However, most people refer to the products of these two materials as artificial leather. Although PVC and PU are both made of polyvinyl chloride as the main raw materials, the manufacturing processes of these two products are not exactly the same. The price of PU leather is more than twice that of PVC leather, and the price of PU leather with some special requirements is 2-3 times higher than that of PVC leather. Despite this, after years of competition and development, the current profit margin of PVC is very narrow. For some varieties, there is only a few cents or even a few cents of profit space per meter. In fact, in theory, with the continuous upgrading of the industry and the continuous improvement of technology, PU should have a greater price advantage than PVC in the future.
In terms of service life, PU leather can only be used 4-5 times before it becomes scrapped; PVC leather has a longer service life, so the current artificial leather market is still dominated by PVC. After all, it takes a certain buffer time for new products to replace old products.