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BASF to unveil first ever reactive dye for leather at APLF

01/02/2006

BASF is to present a world premiere for the leather industry at this year’s Asia Pacific Leather Fair (APLF) which will be held in Hong Kong on March 28-31.

Lugafast Black AN is said to be the world’s first reactive dye for leather which offers unprecedented wet- and migration-fastness levels. Furthermore excellent perspiration resistance and washfastness are achieved on both leather manufactured with organic tanning agents and on chrome-tanned leather. Leather dyed with Lugafast Black AN will no longer bleed on skin or other materials that it comes in contact with light-coloured textiles or plastics such as PVC. It is fixed irreversibly to the leather fibres.

The innovative dyeing process makes it possible to obtain high quality leather with a tight grain from a wide variety of raw
materials. Lugafast Black AN can be used to dye leather evenly through the cross-section. It is applied in a single-stage process and neutralisation, dye penetration, and the fixation of the dye on the leather fibres are done in the same float. In addition, it is not necessary to dissolve the reactive dye in advance.

With Lugafast Black AN the complete dyeing process is said to be optimised. It implies greater reliability in leather manufacturing and opens the door for creative material combinations, innovative designs and brilliant new products full of contrast and fantasy.





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