Stahl Stay Clean® technology for stain-resistant leather surfaces
Compact and upgrading technologies enable leather manufacturers to improve lower-grade hides, creating surfaces that meet demanding aesthetic and performance requirements.
Leather top coats for long-lasting protection and touch
Leather top coats for long-lasting protection and touch
Top coats are the final layer in a leather finishing system, providing the ultimate combination of protection, appearance, and tactile experience. They help preserve the beauty of leather while ensuring long-lasting performance under everyday use conditions.
Stahl's top coat solutions are designed to deliver exceptional durability without compromising the natural character and feel of leather. Our technologies help enhance resistance to abrasion, scratching, staining, and environmental influences while enabling a broad range of visual and sensory effects. Whether manufacturers require a soft, natural touch, a premium fashion finish, or highly durable performance for automotive and furniture applications, our portfolio offers solutions tailored to specific requirements. By combining appearance, functionality, and sustainability, Stahl top coats help customers create leather products that remain attractive and perform reliably throughout their lifecycle.
Top Coat offering:
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Dull Water Top Coat
Gloss Water Top Coat
Intermediate Top coat
Kuppenglanz Top Coat
Patent Effect
Product
Main features
Stahl offers an extensive range of water-based top coats to add several high-performance features that protect the base coat while improving texture. This range is ideal for full and corrected grain leather for applications across the automotive, apparel and accessories and interior design industries. Whether you’re looking for a clean, dull, intermediate, glossy, Kuppenglanz or patent top coat, our portfolio has the right product for your leather.
AQUALEN Top HT Velvet
Aqualen® Top D-2012.D
Dull top coat with high physical properties - Pleasant feel - Repolishable
Aqualen® Top D-2015.A liq
High performance top coat - Low repolishability
Aqualen® Top D-2018.B
Very high rub values and taber resistance. Very high dulling degree. Low repolishability
Aqualen® Top D-2019 liq
Very dull, high performance top coat - Low repolishability
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Leather pigments & liquid dyes for consistent color performance
Pigments and liquid dyes provide the foundation for creating vibrant colors, subtle shades, special effects, and consistent color matching across a broad range of leather applications.
Sustainability at Stahl
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Stahl's 2025 ESG Report presents further progress and sharpened strategic focus
Waalwijk, the Netherlands, 21 April 2026 – Stahl, a global provider of speciality coatings for flexible materials, has published its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. The report outlines Stahl's recent progress on its ESG Roadmap to 2030 and the steps the company is taking to live its purpose: Touching lives, for a better world.
Stahl awarded EcoVadis Platinum medal for fifth consecutive year
Stahl, a global provider of speciality coatings for flexible materials, proudly announces that it has once again been awarded the Platinum rating by EcoVadis for its sustainability performance.
Stahl launches Syncros™: A new generation of sustainable crosslinkers for leather finishing
Stahl proudly introduces Syncros™, a novel generation of hyperfunctional carbodiimide crosslinkers designed to bring high performance and sustainability to leather finishing.
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