my country’s water-based coatings enter the “fast lane” of production and sales

Under the incentives of smog management and environmental protection, the traditional high-pollution paint paint is accelerating the use of water-based paint and other emerging paint instead. Dai Guoqing, deputy secretary-general of the China Chemical Industry Society, said on the 22nd that in 2016, the output of coating companies above designated size was 1,897,800 tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%; and water paint are booming, achieving a 100% growth. In the first half of this year, water paint accounted for as much as 70% of the coating industry under construction, commissioning and planned construction projects.
　　 Many people don’t know that paint everywhere is also one of the factors that cause smog. Since the use of paint requires the addition of organic solvents, a large amount of volatile organic compounds released by it, together with automobile exhaust and industrial waste gas, will eventually form ozone and PM2.5 pollution. The water paint can be diluted only by adding water, and the volatile organic compounds produced are less than 1/10 of the paint.
“Water-based is an important means for the coating industry to transform to green and environmental protection.” Dai Guoqing said at the first Water Paint Expo held on the same day that environmental protection efforts have been increasing in recent years. A series of measures such as air pollutant emission standards have accelerated the transformation of paint to water paint.
“At present, water paint is widely used in steel structure, wood furniture, automobile and other industries. The trend of’oil-to-water’ has begun to expand to the upstream and downstream industrial chain of coatings.” Hong Dingyi, director of the Water Paint Research Institute under the China Chemical Industry Society Said that it is expected that in five years, my country’s water paint market demand will exceed 6.3 million tons.
　　 According to the reporter’s understanding, the National Stadium “Bird’s Nest” recently renewed its paint film and chose environmentally friendly water paint as the paint. The “little yellow car” shared bicycles that can be seen everywhere in the streets are also painted with water.
　　 The “Key Industries Volatile Organic Compounds Reduction Action Plan” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology clearly requires that by 2018, the proportion of green paint products with low (no) volatile organic compounds will reach more than 60%. The industry generally believes that there is still a lot of room for promotion of water paint.
“In 2016, the use of water-based paint in my country was about 1.89 million tons, which only accounted for less than 10% of the entire coating industry.” Hong Ding One believes that with the improvement of water paint performance, the anticorrosive paint in the petrochemical, railway, ship and other fields that were considered difficult to replace in the past can now be replaced by water-based paints. .