Is The Car Leather Seat Genuine Leather?

As an indicator of luxury and comfort in the car, leather seats have been sought after by many consumers, but do you know leather?

Genuine leather is a collective term for natural animal leather. At the same time, "dermis" in the concept also has a meaning other than "artificial leather". Today, "leather" has become an indispensable feature in automobile manufacturing. Among them, the car leather seat cover material can be roughly divided into genuine leather, artificial leather and synthetic leather. However, you must have noticed that you have never heard of artificial leather in the automotive market. No matter how many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cars are called "leather seats" in sales, is this really the case?

The seats are mostly made of cowhide, and most of the cowhide is the most delicate yellow cowhide, which has good elasticity and the pores are arranged evenly and delicately. In addition, some luxury brands will choose cattle from designated ranches as raw materials for vehicle leather to ensure the quality of leather. However, a good piece of genuine leather needs to pass through a certain process before it can be used on the seat. Most of the processes for treating genuine leather are the same, but different tanning preparations are used during tanning. The current mainstream tanning method is chrome tanning. Some top luxury cars use vegetable-tanned leather for interiors and seats to reduce their environmental impact. This is like Audi's Valonea genuine leather, which uses the fruits of Valonea oak to make a pure vegetable tanning agent.

Due to the cost of "leather", not all leather seats on the market are "leather". The market models of leather can be roughly divided into three types, which are all artificial leather, only the seat cushion and backrest center adopt leather and full leather. Except for some luxury brands, they will introduce whether it is artificial leather or make a detailed introduction to leather with special craftsmanship in other propaganda. The definition of "leather" in other brands is very vague.

Now the automotive market is happy to collectively refer to car leather seats as "leather seats," even for artificial leather. The occurrence of such a phenomenon is inseparably related to the importance that consumers attach to leather materials.