Alcantara is a composite material used to cover surfaces and forms in various industries, such as automotive, upholstery, fashion, aircraft, yachting and electronics. It is produced using a proprietary technology by Alcantara Spa, an Italian company (which both manufacture and market the product). Alcantara is created via the combination of an advanced spinning process (very low denier bi-component "islands in the sea" fibre) and chemical and textile production processes (needle punching, buffing, impregnation, extraction, finishing, dyeing, etc) which interact with each other. |