Optical brighteners for PVC synthetic leather
Synthetic leather is coated, embossed and heat-set, and each step adds a little yellow. FP-127 was developed for exactly this soft PVC system, which is why it appears on most synthetic leather formulations rather than the rigid-PVC grades.
What the grade has to survive
Four things that decide the choice
- Affinity for the plasticised PVC phase
- Whiteness that survives embossing and heat setting
- Suits coated fabric, wallpaper and PVC plastisol alike
- Brightens pale colourways as well as whites
These are the constraints we work through with customers on this application. Everything on this page traces back to the published data for the grades listed below.
Grades for synthetic leather
Background reading on synthetic leather
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Send us the synthetic leather brief
Substrate, process temperature, whiteness target and trial quantity. That is everything we need to name a grade.