In fall and winter, it is often dull, cold and wet. The sun grows weaker and temperatures drop. Storms sweep across the country. On days like these, most people fetch warm and weatherproof clothing from their wardrobes – with LANXESS products that help to stop them getting cold and wet.
When it’s pouring with rain, small children – often to their parents’ annoyance – love to jump around in puddles, splashing to their hearts’ content. The only things keeping their feet dry are rubber boots – if the children wear them! The antioxidants Vulkanox and Vulkazon ensure that their boots remain watertight, even after several years. They help to keep the rubber durable and stop it from becoming porous and cracked.
No chance of cold feet
However, leather boots also are worn in slush and rain. There is no longer any need to get cold feet from soggy boots though. High-tech chemicals give leather effective protection against moisture, but are also permeable to air. As a result, the feet can “breathe” without getting sweaty. Levotan W is the name of the silicon polymer applied after tanning that protects the leather against water.
In particular, leather labeled “waterproof” must meet extremely strict requirements: for instance, some shoe manufacturers insist that the leather does not get saturated and only absorbs minimal amounts of water in hours of testing.
Leather, that timeless material, meets different requirements from season to season. As well as clothing and protecting feet, it warms bodies and hands in coats and gloves on frosty days, while also looking chic and elegant. LANXESS is one of the few suppliers in the leather industry to offer all essential products for leather manufacture. Its products range from tanning agents, preservatives, fatliquoring agents, dyes and pigments to tanning and finishing aids.
