MICRO STAPLE FIBER NONWOVEN FABRIC AND LEATHER-LIKE ARTICLE IN SHEET FORM, AND METHOD FOR THEIR PRODUCTION

摘要

To provide a nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers suitable as a leather-like sheet, and also a leather-like sheet with an excellent compactness. A nonwoven fabric containing ultra-fine fibers, characterized in that it contains staple fibers with a fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 decitex and a fiber length of 10 cm or less, and has a weight per unit area of 100 to 550 g/m 2 , an apparent density of 0.280 to 0.700 g/cm 3 , a tensile strength of 70 N/cm or more, and a tear strength of 3 to 50 N.