Kao Soap Company, Ltd.

Dynic Corporation

Shoji Matsuda

Tamio Ishiai

Hidehiko Maki

Toru Orisaka

Sadao Fujii

Koichi Nishida

Tasaku Nishii

Yuichi Ueda

A process for producing an artificial leather having excellent touch, appearance and full-hand similar to that of natural leather and having further excellent softness and surface strength, which comprises coating a composition comprising an urethane prepolymer, a combination of catalysts and a foam stabilizer and including a plurality of extremely fine cells (foams) of an inert gas, onto a release paper or a layer of a surface treating agent coated on a release paper in a specified thickness; subjecting the resultant to a steam treatment under a specified atmosphere; laminating a base sheet onto the coating layer under pressure; subjecting the laminated product to a heat treatment at a specified temperature, and then peeling off the release paper, and optionally further treating the product with a surface treating agent.

Process for producing artificial leather

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Kyoto, Japan

Shoji Matsuda