LEATHER-LIKE SHEET MATERIAL, PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND INTERIOR, CLOTHING, AND INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS MADE BY USING THE SAME

摘要

The invention provides a leather-like sheet material which is excellent in surface appearance, feeling, and physical properties and considerate of the environment; a process for the production thereof; and interior, clothing, and industrial materials made by using the same. A leather-like sheet material made from a nonwoven fabric which is constituted of ultrafine-denier fibers having a mean single-fiber fineness of 0.001 to 0.5dtex and impregnated with a self-emulsifiable polyurethane, characterized in that the self-emulsifiable polyurethane and the ultrafine-denier fibers do substantially not adhere closely to each other, that the moieties of the polyurethane have a pore-free structure, and that the polyurethane has a structure crosslinked by siloxane linkage in the molecular structure.