Leather Base Cloth Global Market and Trend
The leather base cloth is the synthetic leather base material, which is generally a textile product processed for special purposes. It is the skeleton support material of synthetic leather.
According to the knitting process, leather base cloths are mainly divided into knitted leather cloth, woven leather cloth, and non-woven leather cloth.
- Knitted leather cloth has good flexibility, softness, moisture absorption, air permeability, and bending deformation resistance, and is widely used in shoe leather, box and bag leather, home decoration leather, and so on.
- The woven leather cloth has advantages in dimensional stability and drapability, and has strong universality.
- Non-woven leather cloth is a new product in the textile industry, in which superfine fiber nonwovens face more challenges in market development due to price bottleneck.
In 2017, the global leather base cloth market was 2.205 million tons, Due to the negative impact of the outbreak of the COVID-19 on the leather base cloth industry, the global leather base cloth market dropped to 2.045 million tons in 2022. With the gradual recovery of the global economy and trade from post-COVID-19, it is estimated that the global leather base cloth market will reach 2.430 million tons in 2027, and CAGR will be 3.5% from 2022 to 2027.
East Asia is the world's largest leather base cloth production area, and the main leather base cloth-producing countries are China, Japan, and South Korea. China's production capacity of leather base cloth accounts for more than 70% global market share.
Leather base cloth can be divided into shoe leather base cloth, garment leather base cloth, luggage leather base cloth, furniture leather base cloth, decorative leather base cloth, automotive interior leather base cloth. Following is the market share by leather base cloth application.