Water-based top coats that add versatile protection properties

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, and includes products from our Aqualen®, Easyguard and Astacin® portfolios. Whether you’re looking for a clean, dull, intermediate, glossy, Kuppenglanz or patent top coat, our portfolio has the right product for your leather.

Anti-soiling Clean Top and Easyguard coats

This range of Easyguard and Clean Top products is ideal for full or corrected grain leather for automotive applications. In particular, these top coats offer properties like resistance to dirt and dyes, anti-soiling, easy cleaning, and soft, natural or slippery textures.

High-performance dull top coats

Stahl’s dull top coats have high-performance properties such as abrasion and scuff resistance, color retention, cold resistance, and UV fastness. These top coats produce a range of textures, from soft to silky to waxy. It includes products from our Aqualen® and Astacin® ranges.

Improved plate release with our intermediate top coats

Stahl offers two intermediate top coats for full and corrected grain leather from our Aqualen® portfolio. Our medium-dull Aqualen® Top IL.A is designed to reduced leather stickiness, while our glossy Aqualen® Top SIL is designed as an effect coat. Both improve plate release.

Glossy top coats for high-end leather

Stahl’s glossy top coats add shine and other high-performance properties to a wide range of leather products, especially high-end applications. Their features include abrasion and wear resistance, water drop resistance and temperature resistance, non-hardening, and good milling. The range includes top coats specially designed for shoe upper nappa, bag and garment leathers, as well as aniline leather and water-based systems.

Kuppenglanz top coats

Our Kuppenglanz top coat WT-13-894 can be used on full grain leather, corrected grain leather and skins. It produces elegant shiny tips by milling and has a dull appearance. This top coat is ideal for upholstery applications, but can also be used for shoes and leather goods.

Patent effect top coats for high shine

Stahl’s patent effect top coats add water patents, good fastness, soft textures, and high gloss to full and corrected grain leathers. Our Aqualen® Top SPT can also be used on skins. This range of top coats is ideal for shoes and leather goods applications but is also useful for garment and upholstery applications. They are all Stahl Neo® compliant.

Stahl’s water-based top coats are part of our Stahl Neo® portfolio, which means that they comply with the ZDHC MRSL.

New-generation water-based topcoats

The Aqualen® Top NG range introduces the future of water-based topcoats. Suitable for all leather goods, Stahl’s solution is specially designed for products where an elegant finish is a must. Its aqueous blend of advanced polymer technology and auxiliaries offers eye-catching vibrancy with a distinctive natural-leather look and feel, and four sophisticated finish options. Aqualen® Top NG’s self-crosslinking properties enable high fastness and superior durability, while additional crosslinkers can also be added for additional fastness benefits. The range is also free of CAB and nitrocellulose, complies with ZDHC MRSL 2.0, and has less than 1% VOC content.