Naugahyde is an American brand of artificial leather. Naugahyde is a composite knit fabric backing and expanded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. It was developed by Byron A. Hunter, a senior chemist at the United States Rubber Company, and is now manufactured and sold by the corporate spin-off Uniroyal Engineered Products LLC.
Its name, first used as a trademark in 1936,[1][full citation needed] comes from the name of Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced.[citation needed] It is now manufactured in Stoughton, Wisconsin.[2]