More environment-friendly coatings in coating industry

In January 1st, the newly revised "environmental protection law" began to implement, as this part of the industry has been referred to as the domestic history of the most stringent "environmental protection law" of the implementation, a number of industry standard update as well as consumers of health product demand and rapid change, experts pointed out, China coating market will produce more changes, including "environmental protection" is the common choice of theme.

At present, although the environment-friendly coatings in China at present the market rate of less than 50%, to aqueous coating for example, due to market maturity is not high, the terminal user is more sensitive to the price and other factors, has been in the industry, the market hot cold "state, but some experts pointed out that in the new regulation will be the implementation of environmental protection under the water paint is expected to usher in a great development opportunity.

It is reported, at present the paint industry is divided into architectural coatings, automotive coatings, industrial anti-corrosion coating (including ships, container), non metal coating (including furniture and so on) four categories, although the building coating the market a total of about 1/3, aqueous coating has accounted for about 95% of the market share, but in the other three categories, water-based paint market share is not high, including the wood furniture paint ordinary consumers often come into contact with, only 5%-8% of the furniture enterprises using water-based paint.

Why the furniture enterprise is not willing to use water-based paint? One is because consumers are not too concerned about the finished furniture used coating is water or oily, and, most wood furniture enterprise production line can only use oil paints, if the switch to water-based coatings, meant to spend huge sums of money to update production equipment. However, the implementation of new environmental regulations, there are a lot of wood furniture enterprises may increase the demand for water paint.

For consumers, now the outdoor environment in many big cities are not too good, so everybody wants the house environment better, to paint nature will require low toxicity, low VOC (volatile organic compounds) etc.. The birth of new environmental laws and regulations is not only low VOC, low toxicity, and even can help clean the room air, the elimination of formaldehyde and other harmful substances.

The expert expresses, energy saving and environmental protection is a major development trend of architectural paint. In energy-saving environmental protection, not only means that the products will do less damage to the environment, also means to building energy conservation should also help, such as some paint can help the building to achieve heat insulation and heat preservation effect, by reflecting sunlight, slow heat transfer, reduce the room temperature, saving energy and environmental protection effect, this kind of product usually can save electricity each year 4%-9% refrigeration.