Environmental protection coating industry: Water-based paint is imperative to replace traditional coatings

In 2017, the reshuffling of the coatings industry was completed, and the output reached a new high.

Since 2003, with the rapid development of China's real estate industry, the demand for environmentally friendly coatings has also started to erupt. After several years of development, China has become the country with the largest demand for environmentally friendly coatings in the world. And domestic environmental protection coatings production enterprises have also started to rise like mushrooms. As of 2017, there have been more than 20,000 environmentally friendly coatings manufacturers, including more than 2,000 well-known brands. As a result of the swarm of environmental protection coatings companies entering the industry, the good and bad of the coatings industry has been uneven. Starting from 2016, the "toughest real estate regulation and control policy" was introduced, and the objective reasons of "increasing raw material costs" have promoted several major reshuffles of the environmental protection coatings industry. Some small environmentally friendly coatings companies have suffered severe setbacks and have withdrawn from the market. The remaining large and medium-sized environmentally friendly coatings companies continue to play games, and the market has begun to turn to benign development. By 2017, the coatings industry has been reshuffled, and the output of the entire coatings industry has set a new high.

Environmental water-based paint and traditional oil-based paint confronted, water-based paint has become a new favorite in the industry

As people's awareness of environmental protection has become stronger, the country has also paid more attention to and stricter environmental protection. In early 2015, the "Environmental Protection Law", which was described as China's "toughest in history," was officially implemented. From February 1, 2015, Enterprises levy 4% paint consumption tax. In addition, large-scale incentive measures have also been issued for environmentally-friendly companies. Consumption tax can be exempted for coatings with a VOC content of ≤420 g / liter under construction. Traditional oil-based paint products are facing great shocks, and new low-pollution water-based paints gradually occupy the market and become the new darling of the industry.

In the context of energy saving and emission reduction, water-based paints will be the future development. Compared with traditional paints, water-based paints are new environmentally friendly paints with water as a diluent. They do not contain toxic and harmful gases such as benzene, toluene, and formaldehyde. Compared with paints, Significant environmental advantages. It is an important guarantee for achieving energy conservation and emission reduction. In recent years, more and more attention has been paid. As a kind of green paint with low pollution, it will definitely replace the traditional oil-based paint and become the protagonist of the world coating market in the future. According to incomplete statistics, China ’s annual demand for industrial anticorrosive coatings is about 2.5 million tons, of which 1.8 million tons can be replaced by water-based industrial anticorrosive coatings. Due to the limitations of traditional coatings, the annual waste rate of resources is also more than 4 billion yuan. . The harm to the environment is even more immeasurable.

Therefore, the reform of the coatings industry is imperative. Water-based industrial anticorrosive coatings will certainly replace traditional coatings and be widely used in various fields such as petrochemicals, automobiles, railways, ships, and containers.

At present, the revolution in the coatings industry has been completed internationally. Water-based coatings have reached 70-80% of the international market share, and even 90% in some developed countries in Europe and the United States.