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Leather
Enhancing look, feel and performance
To produce the soft, durable and functional leather for everyday applications, leather manufacturers rely on a range of chemistries, including binders, lubricants, processing aids and additives. Dow offers a portfolio of proprietary silicone, acrylic and polyurethane chemistries, combined with leather application experience. This powerful combination helps formulators develop both the high-performance coatings needed for use in tanneries – and the solutions that support wet-end processes.
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Wet-end processes | Leather finishing |
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More solutions, where to buy and further applications
The exclusive, global distributor for the brands described above is TFL.
Some DOWSIL™ Silicone Chemistries can be used in wet-end or finishing processes.
Many of these products are also suitable for synthetic leather finishing.
Luxurious leather alternatives
Dow provides a wide array of solutions to meet the growing demand for synthetic leather, including our new LuxSense™ Silicone Leather. Dow also offers polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride and bio-based products to create multilayer structures that are coated with traditional finishing products to mimic the texture, haptics and sensory properties of natural leather.
LuxSense™ Silicone Leather
Witness the performance of our innovative technology, LuxSense™ Silicone Leather, designed to meet the needs for automotive interiors.
VITHANE™ Polyurethane Finishing Products
Dow offers a range of fully formulated polyurethane finishing products under the VITHANE™ brand for use by manufacturers of synthetic materials.
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