Influence of environmental regulations on coatings industry

In recent years, from the increasingly severe "haze war", to the most stringent environmental protection law in history, and then to the restrictions on the sale and use of solvent-based coatings first implemented in Shenzhen, the presentation of a series of problems and the introduction of policies release a strong signal: when environmental protection becomes the main theme today, the "oil to water" revolution storm is also strong. Environmental protection, health and green are becoming the key direction of the development of the whole upstream and downstream industrial chain. Because the traditional coating uses organic solvent, the VOC content of the coating is higher online coatingol.com. During or after coating, VOC volatilizes from coating at room temperature, which causes air pollution. It is reported that the indoor VOC content can reach 1000 times of the outdoor VOC content when the organic solvent coating is applied. Even in a long period of time after coating, VOC will continue to volatilize from the coating, resulting in continuous air pollution. With the introduction of the paint consumption tax and the proposed pollution discharge fee and other policies, for the paint manufacturing enterprises with low profit margin, it can be called "360 days of a year, when the wind and the frost force each other".

Especially in the market of technology differentiation, when other coatings can meet the conditions of tax exemption, it is not so easy to transfer the cost of consumption tax to the downstream. These new policies and regulations have drawn a clear roadmap for the development of coating enterprises. In addition to developing environmentally friendly products with low pollution, low energy consumption and low VOC emissions, coating enterprises should also support and develop the "energy saving and emission reduction" work in the whole process of coating, while enhancing their own sense of social responsibility and sustainability in environmental protection Development planning. Only in this way can we truly achieve sustainable environmental development. The original intention and goal of these policies are to develop low VOC environment-friendly coatings, adjust product structure, promote industrial upgrading, promote energy conservation and environmental protection, and guide the healthy and sustainable development of the industry. In the face of the implementation of the paint consumption tax, the implementation rules to be improved, the specific implementation of the policy and how to truly reflect the original intention - to truly achieve the goal of controlling VOC emissions, we need to actively respond, respond as soon as possible, accelerate the pace of enterprise upgrading and transformation, and promote the adjustment of industrial structure.

Therefore, enterprises should focus on the transformation and upgrading of products, through the technical improvement of coatings and the adjustment of product structure, research and development of more environmentally friendly and high-performance water-based coating products to improve market competitiveness, upgrading products to environmentally friendly low VOC coatings is the fundamental way to avoid coating consumption tax. In addition, the application of high-performance coating products will reduce the number of coating recoating, and indirectly reduce VOC emissions by prolonging the service life of coating products. In addition to increasing solid content to reduce VOC, the more long-term antifouling effect will also extend the maintenance cycle of the coated products, and reduce the comprehensive cost by reducing the number of times of coating. Perhaps in the next few years, the long-term antifouling coating with a antifouling period of up to 80 months will gain more market share. The key of these high solid content and high performance coatings lies in the development of resin technology for coatings. The research and application of high solid content and low viscosity resins should be paid more attention.

With the revision of China's environmental protection laws and regulations and the beginning of the collection of paint consumption tax, the emission standards of air pollutants, including the coating industry, formulated or planned by local governments in order to achieve the goal of air pollution prevention and control, will continue to impact the paint manufacturing enterprises. With the strengthening of environmental protection process, VOC emission standard requirements in coatings will become more and more severe. In the future, it will promote the development of many environment-friendly coatings, including waterborne coatings, solventless coatings, ultra-high solid coatings, single coating solventless epoxy ballast tank coatings, long-term environment-friendly oil-saving antifouling coatings, peelable temporary protective coatings.