The furniture industry’s comprehensive “oil-to-water” injection into the “strong heart needle” to promote environmental protection upgrades

In the face of policy pressures and the major premise that consumers’ requirements for health are becoming more and more obvious, furniture companies are facing pressure for change. With the country’s aggressive promotion of green industry upgrades, the coatings industry has ushered in the storm of “oil-to-water”, and the tide of “oil-to-water” environmental protection is coming. Who will be the enterprise? Transformation provides practical and effective solutions and has become the focus of everyone’s attention.
With the country’s aggressive promotion of green industry upgrades, the coatings industry has ushered in the storm of “oil-to-water conversion”. Starting from September 1, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei’s first unified environmental protection standard will be enforced, and 3000 companies with environmental problems will face the test of survival. The construction, furniture and other related industries are actively focusing on the “oil-to-water” action, hoping to use water paint to upgrade and transform the environmental protection of enterprises, but they are faced with many confusions.
Since the coating industry has been included in the “Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan” issued by the State Council as a key remediation area, the reduction of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) has become a top priority. Following the Environmental Protection Law and consumption tax, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the “Thirteenth Five-Year” Comprehensive VOCs Emission Reduction Plan, which has formed a trend of chasing VOCs. Various localities are deepening the prevention and control of air pollution, and one after another is pointing to the paint, which is the “larger” VOCs emission, and the scope of control has expanded from paint to downstream industries. Environmental protection pressures in key industries that use coatings for construction and furniture have increased, and the “oil-to-water conversion” is imminent.
Taking the furniture industry as an example, specific policies have been introduced in various regions. For example, Beijing’s “Wooden Furniture Manufacturing Industry Air Pollutant Emission Standard” stipulates the paint properties, production technology and equipment in the furniture production process; my country’s first children’s paint The national standard “Children’s Room Decoration Water Use Wood Coatings” was implemented on July 1, and puts forward higher requirements for the paint for wooden furniture in children’s rooms.
Some furniture practitioners have expressed their concerns about the cost of technological transformation, which has made many people hesitate to take the first step of “oil-to-water”. On the one hand, they are worried that the unit price of water paint is higher than that of paint, which will increase production costs; on the other hand, due to the lack of reference to authoritative industry data, the cost of replacing equipment, adjusting processes, and training labor has also caused some small businesses to Water” stayed away.
Industry insiders pointed out that the unit price of water paint is higher than that of water paint, but the additional costs such as consumption of security, curing agent, and consumption tax are greater than water paint, and the overall cost of paint is higher than that of water paint.
In terms of effect comparison, at a well-known furniture spray painting company’s “oil-to-water” on-site meeting, the physical comparison of water-painted furniture and painted furniture overturned people’s perception of “water-based paint furniture”. The perception of finish, brightness, saturation, etc. is not as good as painted furniture.
Compared with paint, there are many types of water paint, and the painting construction process and precautions are different from paint. It is particularly important to provide guidance for water paint technical services during construction, as well as treatment of defects and on-site rescue after construction errors occur. However, the current application and evaluation of water paint lacks authoritative industry standards. Many companies have to “cross the river by feeling the stones”, and they often have various problems due to their inherent paint thinking.
The various puzzles faced by the furniture industry’s “oil-to-water conversion” have also appeared in the transformation process of other paint industries such as construction and industry. The environmental protection tide of “oil-to-water” is coming, who will provide practical and effective solutions for the transformation of the enterprise has become the focus of everyone’s attention.
Recently, the China Water Paint Research Institute and China’s Waterborne Coatings Industry Strategic Alliance will soon release the Blue Book of Water Paint Application, Evaluation and Promotion Standards, which will provide technical standards, Use standard and specific evaluation system. This will undoubtedly inject a “strong shot” into the “oil-to-water” operation of related industries.