Introduction to WINIW Footwear Synthetic Leather
WINIW is a leading provider of footwear synthetic leather that helps to bring comfort, style, and performance to shoes. Our synthetic leather materials are designed to meet the needs of designers, manufacturers, and consumers who are looking for high-quality, durable, and sustainable footwear.
Our synthetic leather materials are made from the finest quality materials, which are selected for their strength, durability, and aesthetic appeal. They are designed to be lightweight, breathable, and flexible, allowing for maximum comfort and mobility. Our materials come in a wide range of colors, textures, and finishes, allowing designers to create shoes that are stylish, unique, and attractive.
At WINIW, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of quality and sustainability in all of our products. We use environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes to minimize our impact on the environment. We believe that it is our responsibility to promote sustainability and environmental stewardship in the footwear industry, and we are dedicated to doing our part.
In addition to our commitment to quality and sustainability, we also pride ourselves on our excellent customer service. We work closely with our customers to understand their specific needs and requirements, and we strive to provide them with the best possible service and support.
Overall, WINIW is a trusted and reputable provider of footwear synthetic leather that stands out for its commitment to quality, sustainability, and customer service. If you are looking for high-quality synthetic leather materials for your footwear designs, look no further than WINIW.
Why Choose Us
- Wide range of applications
The products are widely used in footwear, clothing, luggage, automotive interiors, sofa furniture and other fields.
- Rich Experience
Quanzhou WINIW Import & Export Co., Ltd. was established with more than 20 years of production experience and can provide perfect solutions for customers.
- Affordable Price
You can get our catalog online or visit our factory to see our products. We also provide competitive price and excellent customer service for all our customers.
- 24-Hour Online Customer Service
Our customer service is available online 24 hours a day. After receiving the service information or feedback from the customer, we will reply and address the feedback in the shortest time.
- A Global Supply Chain
We are present globally, backed by local customer service, and a strong sales representatives network.WINIW is committed to providing the best quality artificial leather to customers all over the world, and our products are exported to Europe, America, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other regions.
- Customized Services
WINIW’s customized services are tailored to the specific needs of their clients. This approach ensures that each client receives solutions that are relevant to their unique needs and situations. By designing solutions in this manner, WINIW is able to provide cost-effective solutions that deliver maximum value to their clients.
What are the applications of synthetic leather in footwear?
Synthetic leather is widely used in footwear, mainly in the following aspects:
- Upper materials: synthetic leather is commonly used to make shoe uppers due to its good mechanical strength, resistance to dry and wet rubbing, and resistance to flexing. These properties enable synthetic leather to meet the demand for high tensile strength (e.g. breaking, tearing, sewing, etc.), thus replacing the leather mesh layer.
- Breathability and comfort: synthetic leather has good breathability and flame retardancy, properties that make it increasingly popular in the shoe industry. Breathability and flame retardancy not only improve wearing comfort but also enhance safety.
- Anti-mould and anti-bacterial and warmth: Advanced synthetic leather footwear can be lined with anti-mould and anti-bacterial drugs and have a certain degree of adiabatic properties, thus ensuring that the footwear is sweat-proof, moisture-absorbent, anti-mould, anti-bacterial and warmth-retaining. This makes synthetic leather footwear comparable to leather in terms of wearing experience.
- Versatile choice of colours and textures: synthetic leather is available in a wide variety of colours and textures, which makes it an interesting alternative material choice for components that would otherwise be made from natural leather, such as uppers for formal shoes and sports shoes.
- Environmentally friendly and sustainable: synthetic leather is highly resistant to abrasion, perspiration, flames, hydrolysis and water, as well as being green. These properties make synthetic leather more widely used in footwear.
- Market Demand and Consumption Upgrade: With the improvement of consumers’ requirements on product quality and consumption experience, synthetic leather has gradually become one of the most important materials in human’s daily life. Its performance is close to or even better than that of genuine leather, which makes the application of synthetic leather in the footwear market promising.
To sum up, the application of synthetic leather in footwear covers not only the production of uppers, but also the comfort, anti-mould and anti-bacteria, warmth and other functions inside shoes, and it is also widely used and recognised in the market due to its environmental protection and sustainability features.
What are the economic benefits and market prospects of synthetic leather in footwear?
The economic benefits and market prospects of synthetic leather in the footwear market can be analysed in a number of ways.
Economic benefits
The synthetic leather market is growing rapidly. The global synthetic leather market size is expected to reach USD 80.20 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of 4.0%. China’s synthetic leather market also shows a continuous climbing trend, growing from 55.315 billion yuan in 2015 to 80.544 billion yuan in 2022, and is expected to reach 81.394 billion yuan in 2023.
Continuous technological innovation and steady improvement of product quality help to enhance the competitiveness and market share of enterprises. For example, organosilicon synthetic leather has a promising application in the footwear market due to its comfort, abrasion resistance and waterproofness.
Synthetic leather has the advantages of simple maintenance, UV resistance, high strength, more ductility and high gloss, etc. These characteristics give it a significant advantage in environmental protection and sustainable development. In addition, the popularity of eco-functional synthetic leather such as water-based synthetic leather and solvent-free synthetic leather further enhances the environmental friendliness of synthetic leather.
Synthetic leather is not only widely used in traditional areas such as footwear, bags and garments, but is also expanding in emerging areas such as automotive interiors, outdoor sports and home décor. This diverse range of applications provides more growth opportunities for the synthetic leather market.
Market Prospect
With the increase in human demand for leather, the market demand for synthetic leather as a substitute is also on the rise. Especially in the context of increasing environmental awareness, synthetic leather is becoming the choice of more and more consumers due to its low-carbon and resource-saving properties.
The synthetic leather industry is an industry encouraged by the state, and the policy support helps to promote the rapid development of the industry. This policy environment provides good external conditions for the long-term development of the synthetic leather industry.
Synthetic leather with high technology content, such as wet PU breathable leather and microfibre substrate, will become the key direction for future development. These high-end products not only meet the market demand for high-quality materials, but also enhance the competitiveness of synthetic leather in the market.
China has become the centre of the world’s artificial leather synthetic leather industry, and the production and sales volume show a steady development trend. With the continuous innovation of technology and improvement of product quality, Chinese synthetic leather enterprises are expected to further expand their international market share.
To sum up, synthetic leather has significant economic benefits and broad market prospects in the footwear market. Its environmental protection characteristics, technological innovation and policy support make it have great potential for development in the future market.
What is the production process of synthetic leather for footwear?
The production process of synthetic leather consists of the following main steps:
- Substrate treatment: first the substrate needs to be prepared, usually a textile fibre cloth. The base cloth needs to be pre-treated, e.g. washed and sterilised, to ensure that it is clean and suitable for subsequent coating operations.
- Adhesive preparation: Depending on the type of synthetic leather (e.g. PVC, PU, etc.), the appropriate resins and additives are used. For example, in the case of PVC synthetic leather, the plastic granules are hot-melted and stirred to form a paste, while in the case of PU synthetic leather, polyurethane resins are used.
- Coating: the prepared adhesive is uniformly applied to the pre-treated substrate. This step can be carried out by the direct coating method, i.e. using a squeegee to apply the adhesive directly to the basecloth. For PU synthetic leather, there is also a wet production process, whereby the textile fibre cloth is uniformly covered with a layer of PU resin, which is then immersed in a coagulation bath filled with water to semi-solidify the PU resin layer.
- Gelation and Plasticisation: The coated basecloth needs to go into a plasticising tank for gelation and plasticisation, a step that is designed to allow the adhesive to fully solidify and form a hard surface.
- Surface treatment: The surface of the gelatinised synthetic leather may require further treatment such as embossing, cooling, etc. to improve its look and feel.
- Rolling: Finally, the treated synthetic leather is rolled to form the final product.
There are also special production techniques such as solvent-free technology, which does not use any solvents and reduces the impact on the environment and workers’ health. There are also attempts to produce synthetic leather using biotechnology, such as experiments using organisms such as filamentous fungi as industrial model organisms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How to get a sample?
A: Please contact our custom service to advise your detail request, we will prepare free sample for you. For the first-time cooperation, the postage charge would be by customer’s account. After you place orders, we will send free samples by our account.
Q:Are there more colors available? Accept my order?
A: Yes, of course, we suggest you use our normal colors for first trial order, it is good for leadtime if you want to test quality quickly
Q:How much is the microfiber leather you sell? Can we get a discount?
A: It depends on the thickness, colors, quantity, order time, etc, please tell us your requirement indetail, then we can give you general price for reference Prices could be better, if the purchasing quantity is larger.
Q:If we do not find what we need on your website, what should we do? Do you make products as per customer’s specific requirements?
A: Yes, we can provide bespoke service to customers with specific requirements .You can send the details requirements by email or send us your original samples , we will check if we can develop them . We develop new design every month, and some of them may not yet be updated on our website.
Q:What is the delivery date of the mass production?
A: If we have in stock of the item you need ,we can send goods to you within 3days after receiving payment . If we do not have in stock, usually is 15-25 days, for urgent order, can be 7-10 days
