This is the category of car - furniture - boat and aircraft.
All the leather which is chosen for the sector of the car & boat & furniture
and aircraft, undergoes a special treatment in order to ensure quality, which
is a guarantee for its endurance to extreme climate conditions, as well as to
the use conditions it will be exposed to. The high temperatures, which develop
during the summer months, as well as the respective low temperatures of the
winter are the most important enemies of leather.
All the leather used comes from calves. Although the thickness of the calf leather
is quite big, which means that it can be divided into many layers, only the
first layer is suitable for the coating. This first layer of leather has the
natural membrane with the skin pores and the animal hair, which make it extremely
resistant, smooth at contact and functional.
During its treatment this leather is placed in a big barrel, where it is stirred
for 48 hours, in order to become softer, while the color for its dyeing is also
placed in the same barrel. The first layer of the calf leather is the only one
that can endure the above procedure, and it is the Exclusive and AA quality
leather quality, while its price, in relation to its treatment, is quite high.
After that follow the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th leather quality which remain and are
called crutes. As the crutes have no pores, they cannot breathe, so if the are
placed, although they do not qualify for that use, (their life duration is limited
and they are torn easily), they offer no comfort as they freeze in the winter
and they get overheated in the summer. Leather specialists believe that it is
not acceptable to use this leather quality. Regarding its treatment it is not
placed in a barrel as the AA quality leather, but it is pressed to obtain folds
visually similar to the ones of the first quality, and after that it passes
from special becks, which dye it with plastic colors, in order to get the natural
touch of real leather, while in the substance it is plastic made leather. This
type of leather will be destroyed in a short period of time, in contrast to
Exclusive and AA quality leather which has a life period of at least 5 - 7 years.
This leather does not crack and is not dried under the sun, it does not lose
its color - it does not flake and, most important, it does not make you sweat
or freeze in relation to the temperatures, thanks to its natural pores.
Before forwarding it to the commerce, it undergoes tough tests in order to ensure
its absolute quality.