Recycled leather product and its method of manufacture

Abstract

Described is a recycled leather product comprising, on a supporting layer, a thickness which has a mixture of ground leather fibres and powdered resins and/or heat-sensitive fibres. The invention also relates to a method for making the recycled leather product which comprises the following steps: – selecting and collecting waste from the processing of leather, substantially trimmings and swarf of finished leather coming from the steps for cutting leather goods and footwear, in such a way as to obtain a collected material; – crushing the material collected into pieces of controlled size, preferably with dimensions substantially equal to 10 mm, and mixing/homogenizing the pieces of controlled size, in such a way as to obtain granulated material; – grinding the granulated material for reducing it into leather fibrils, preferably having a size of between 0.5 and 1 mm, inclusive; – mixing the fibrils with powdered resins and/or heat-sensitive fibres and placing them in an orderly fashion on a supporting layer which has at least one adhesive surface portion, in such a way as to make a formed material; – consolidating the formed material by heat setting and compression; – cutting and rolling the consolidated material which is heat-set and compressed; – finishing the rolled material thus obtained to obtain a finished leather product.

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