Cover up flaws: Conceal natural defects such as scars, insect bites, and vascular streaks to improve utilization rate and grade.
Unify appearance: Make the color difference, gloss, and texture of a single piece of leather or even a batch of leather tend to be consistent to meet the requirements of industrial production.
Endow with style: Create a wide variety of products ranging from full - grain natural - looking, corrected - grain practical types to embossed fashionable styles.
Improve physical properties: Enhance practical properties such as wear resistance, dirt resistance, easy care, and light resistance.
Fix the hand - feel: Endow and stabilize tactile experiences such as softness, fullness, smoothness, and waxy feeling.
· Backing/Base coat: Filling and sealing: Fill pores, cover minor damages, reduce regional differences, and prevent excessive penetration of subsequent pastes. It requires strong adhesion and softness.
Apply by wiping paste, roller coating, etc. It requires good penetration and strong filling ability. It may be carried out 1 - 2 times.
· Coloring layer (intermediate coat): Endow the base color and uniform appearance: Provide the main color and basic gloss. It requires full and uniform color, strong covering power, and the coating layer should be soft and elastic.
Precision spraying or roller coating is often used, which is the key to determining the color quality.
· Top layer/Top coat: Provide hand - feel and physical properties: Endow the leather with the final gloss (high - gloss, matte), hand - feel (smooth, waxy, soft), and physical properties (scratch - resistant, wear - resistant).
· Effect (optional): Create a special style: Achieve advanced artistic effects such as polishing color change, antiquing, metallic luster, and pearlescence.
· Polishing/Embossing (post - finishing): Enhance the texture: Further adjust the gloss and texture through mechanical means.