Leather and Artificial Leather

High-Performance Silicone Additives for Leather Finishing: Lasting Softness, Shine, and Protection

Momentive's innovative silicone treatments for leather finishing can transform leather goods into timeless pieces that are stunning, supple, and built to last, significantly enhancing their performance and durability. Our additives can deliver:

Supple softness while standing up to the demands of daily use.

Reliable protection to keep leather shielded from the elements with advanced water-repellent solutions, ideal for shoes, coats, and luggage.

Refined finish to achieve a perfect balance of softness, water resistance, shine, and abrasion protection, all-in-one solution.

Polyurethanes for Artificial Leather

Momentive’s advanced additive solutions can help optimize surface finish and tactile properties in polyurethane-based artificial leather products. Polyurethane artificial leather is widely utilized across diverse industrial sectors, including automotive seating and furniture, and for consumer goods such as footwear, belts, and bags.

Momentive’s additive technologies are engineered to enhance formulation compatibility and processing efficiency, supporting superior end-product quality. Our silicone surfactants can deliver optimized anti-sticking and leveling performance. The comprehensive Niax™ catalyst portfolio enables consistent production throughput, allowing to optimize production efficiency.

Close-up of polyurethane-based artificial leather treated with Niax™ solutions for improved surface and quality.

Abrasion Resistance and Slip Additives for Water-Based Topcoats

Momentive’s Indusil™ portfolio includes 60% active concentrated silicone emulsions specifically formulated to enhance surface characteristics like slip, abrasion, scratch resistance, and anti-blocking in water-based textile and leather topcoats.

Developed using novel surfactant technology, they are suitable for use in polyurethane and acrylic systems and are easy to incorporate, offering excellent compatibility.

Make your textiles and leather goods stand out with their anti-blocking properties, all while maintaining the exquisite touch and feel of the fabric.

Close-up of a scratched black leather surface, showing damage that can occur without the use of Indusil™ silicone emulsions to improve abrasion and scratch resistance.

Silicone Surfactants as Processing Aid

Momentive's silicone surfactants play a critical role as processing aids in leather manufacturing, especially by enhancing leveling and penetration during finishing.

They improve the uniformity of topcoats and help functional additives penetrate more evenly into the leather structure, resulting in smoother surfaces and consistent appearance. These benefits contribute to better process control, reduced defects, and improved production efficiency without compromising the final leather quality.

Additionally, silicones act as slip agents and lubricants during mechanical steps, release agents in embossing and transfer processes, and anti-tack or antifoam agents in drying and aqueous systems.

Close-up of a smooth brown leather surface, treated with Momentive's silicone surfactants to improve leather surfaces and consistent appearance.

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