Upholstered furniture
Genuine buffalo leather has an interesting natural texture with little and thin wrinkles. Raw materials for manufacturing of these types of leather are thick soft leathers with natural upper layer.
Buffalo leather features:
- softness,
- elasticity,
- strength,
- durability.
These types of leather are smooth to the touch, very soft and silky. Buffalo leather is used for manufacturing of upholstered furniture and beds.
PU leather imitates leather structure. Extra-thin fiber and high-sort polyurethane are used for its manufacturing Polyurethane upper layer provides an option to create artificial leather of different colors, with different pattern, while keeping the feature of genuine leather to permeate air and resist to deformations.
PU leather features:
- resistance to abrasion and stretching,
- resistance to frost,
- option to form transverse pores, which allows PU leather to breathe,
- air permeability, steam permeability, hygroscopic properties.
Unlike genuine leather, PU leather looks more attractive and represents a high-technology and high-sort product.
PVC artificial leather is manufactured from polyvinylchloride with addition of plasticity agent and other supplementary components. In comparison with natural materials, PVC leather has an advantage in terms of price, infinite supply, stable quality and easy treatment.
Being 50-80% less expensive than genuine leather, artificial leather has a number of comparable functional features and identical appearance. Artificial leather is not sensible to various external factors, does not require expensive preparation or treatment. Genuine leather needs special treatment, which is absolutely not required for high-quality artificial leather, even in case of intensive and longstanding use.