Silicone leather is a new type of environmental protection leather, which is made of silica gel as raw material. This new material is combined with superfine fiber, non-woven fabric and other substrates, and is suitable for various industries. Organic silicon leather is made of organic silicon coated on various substrates by solvent-free technology. It belongs to the new material industry in the 21st century. Due to its excellent characteristics: weather resistance, flame retardancy, anti pollution and easy care, non sensitization, anti mildew and anti bacteria, wear-resistant and durable, safe and non-toxic, silicone leather is very outstanding. It is suitable for hotel, medical, home, 3C, automobile, children and other industries.

With the gradual enhancement of people's awareness of environmental protection and safety, environmental protection and green products have become the target products for the development of various industries, and all products marked with green and health signs have also become products that people are more keen to trust. The leather industry is no exception. In the production and preparation process of traditional PU / PVC synthetic leather, a large number of harmful substances such as DMF, butanone and toluene are used, and the wastes will also produce biohazardous decomposition products such as hydrogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide when they are recycled. There are environmental / human hazards in the production process. At present, the environmental protection situation is so severe. It is expected that industries and products that have certain harmful factors to the environment and human body in the future will inevitably face a major technological transformation or product upgrading.

Differences between silicone leather, PU, PVC and leather:

Silicone leather: no harmful gas is released, the combustion process is fresh and odorless.

Leather: there is no harmful gas in the combustion process, but a large number of aniline dyes, chromates and other chemical reagents are used in the leather processing process. During the combustion process, there will be some harmful irritant gases such as nitrogen compounds (nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide), sulfur dioxide and so on, and the leather is easy to crack.

PU leather: burning will produce hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, nitrogen compounds (nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc.) and other harmful and irritant plastic gases

PVC leather: the combustion process and production process will produce dioxin, hydrogen chloride. Dioxin and hydrogen chloride are highly toxic substances, which may lead to cancer and other diseases, and produce a strong plastic smell. (the main odor is from solvent, finishing agent, fatliquoring agent, plasticizer, mildew inhibitor, etc.)

Other advantages of silicone leather

Natural antifouling

Silicone leather has inherent antifouling property, which can be easily removed by water or detergent without leaving any trace for most of the pollutants, greatly saving the cleaning time of interior and exterior decoration materials and reducing the cleaning difficulty, and catering to the modern people's simple and fast life concept.

Natural weather resistance              

The surface material of Silicone leather is composed of organosilicon inorganic main chain. This unique chemical structure brings the weather resistance of organosilicon leather, such as UV resistance, hydrolysis resistance and salt fog resistance, to the extreme. Even if the decorative materials are used for up to 10 years, they can still be as perfect as new. We have won the praise of previous user experience, and passed the most rigorous test in quality.

Natural flame retardant

Although the use of flame retardants has played a good role in fire prevention and flame retardation, many recent studies have shown that the abuse of chemical flame retardants has caused more serious water and environmental pollution, but also a threat to human health. Silicone leather is easy to pass the flame retardant test without any flame retardant.

If you are factories making silicone leather, you may check out below companies from OKCHEM providing silicone raw materials:

Hangzhou Ruijiang Performance Material Science Co., Ltd

Emeishan Changqing New Material Co., Ltd

Hisilco Chemical Industrial Co.,Ltd

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