Water-based coatings have a promising future

In 2014, we will attach unprecedented importance to the ecological environment, advance ecological protection projects with unprecedented efforts, and tackle environmental violations in accordance with laws and regulations with unprecedented iron fists, and strive to create a beautiful environment with a long-lasting blue, long green, and long water. After the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the 31 provinces signed the responsibility statement for atmospheric pollution control targets, the “**” proposals and proposals of various local governments have pointed to pollution, and “haze and haze weather” has become one of the topics most concerned by the Chinese government and the people.

Specific to the coatings chemical industry, environmental friendly, resource-saving water-based coatings are encouraged development products in the “Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment” (2013 Revision) of the National Development and Reform Commission. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plans that in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the water-based coating of automobiles should reach 70%, and the water-based coating of home furnishings should reach 30%. Guangdong Province strives to achieve a waterborne coating ratio of more than 60% by 2015.

Under the policy guidance and reform pressures of the government and the local iron-clad pollution control, the crowded enterprises have preemptively laid out their own water-based paint production bases. On February 15, Guangdong Hongchang Chemical Co., Ltd. announced that it will invest nearly RMB 100 million in Shunde to build the new Hongchang Group Technology Industrial Park, including investing 50 million yuan to build a water paint production base (phase 1 project). It is understood that the production base covers an area of ​​100 acres and the designed production capacity reaches 80,000 tons. The project adopts automatic production equipment. It is expected that the project will be completed and put into production in 2014.

Subsequently, Chenyang Group, Zhongnan Coatings, Ketian Chemical, Huilong Coatings, and PPG and other coating companies have expanded water paint production capacity, and some of them plan to build new water paint projects. Waterborne and environmentally friendly coatings have become the main theme of the industry development in 2014. The reporter also interviewed Ren Dezhong, the general manager of the Tu Tu Building Materials Co., Ltd., for an exclusive interview on the “industrial hot and cold market” problem of water-based paints. He pointed out that water-based paints cannot meet requirements in terms of hardness, construction, etc., as well as high costs. The factors that make the water-based paint market develop slowly in the country, and the market share is less than 10%. The use of water paint is relatively early in the world, and the use rate of water-based paint in Europe has reached 80% - 90%. Therefore, the future of China's water-based paint market is huge.

Jiuzheng Building Materials Network believes that the paint companies are investing heavily in the development and production of waterborne coatings, which will inevitably increase the production of waterborne coatings on the market in the future. Under the current circumstances, the current situation of how to dissolve the “market cold” status of waterborne coatings becomes Particularly important. The author believes that water-based paint as an emerging paint subdivision industry, in order to quickly break the embarrassing situation of the "market cold", painted enterprises should first break through the technical bottlenecks, and strengthen market cultivation, enhance the public's full awareness of water-based paint. In addition, in order to avoid over-repetition of low-level construction of waterborne coatings, relevant government departments should improve industry access thresholds and reduce waste of resources.