Pure polyester powder coatings for outdoor use are gradually increasing in China

In recent years, powder coating has been recognized by more and more consumers as an environmentally friendly and pollution-free coating technology. Many developing countries, especially some emerging coating markets, such as China and India in Asia, have seen an astonishing growth rate in their powder coating markets.
Powder coating is a new type of solvent-free solid powder coating. It has the characteristics of solvent-free, recyclable, environmentally friendly, energy-saving and resource saving, reducing labor intensity, and high mechanical strength of coating. Powder coatings are completely different from general coatings, as they exist in the form of fine powders. It is called powder coating because it does not use solvents. The main characteristics of powder coatings include resource conservation and environmental protection.
At present, global coating industry giants such as Aksu and Xuanwei are optimistic about the Chinese powder coating market, and are expanding the breadth and depth of the powder coating market in China. Domestically, they are also taking action, forming a situation of warlord division. Experts predict that in the future, the Chinese powder coating market will gradually form four major market areas:
1、 Important application areas: Thermistic materials
At present, powder coatings have been successfully applied to the coating of thermosensitive materials and have achieved industrial production. As an emerging and promising coating variety, powder coatings will further occupy the liquid coating market. The improvement of manufacturing processes for UV cured powder coatings and low-temperature cured powder coatings has made it possible to apply powder coatings to thermosensitive materials.
2、 Rapid growth areas of powder coatings: industrial coatings such as ship powder coatings
At present, a considerable proportion of ship pipelines in China have been sprayed with powder coating, which is developing rapidly. With the continuous improvement of powder coating technology, its development prospects are very broad. Powder coating for pipelines is a new type of coating that is completely free, sprayed in powder form and melted into a film.
3、 Powder coating demand area: Automotive powder coating
Powder coatings for automobiles include epoxy mixed type, polyester type, polyvinyl chloride ester type, and type. The application of powder coatings in automobiles began at the end of 1990, and some automotive components were successfully coated with powder coatings. With the improvement of technology and the improvement of powder coating performance, it has now fully met various requirements of sedans, such as appearance decoration, weather resistance, chemical resistance, scratch resistance, etc.
At present, domestic powder coatings are mostly used in the automotive industry for the coating of components such as cars, chassis, wheels, control rods, reflectors, wipers, and horns. Due to technological limitations, powder coatings for automobiles are currently only available in single color series such as mid coat and clear coat. The Global Coatings Network believes that this is because powder coatings cannot change colors quickly like liquid coatings. With increasingly stringent environmental requirements and the continuous improvement of powder coating technology, the market application fields of powder coatings will become wider and wider.
4、 Future Market Prospects of Powder Coatings: Construction Engineering and Outdoor Facilities
The gradual increase in the growth index of pure polyester powder coatings for outdoor use in China in recent years fully demonstrates the development potential of this market. However, with the widespread use of outdoor powder coatings, consumer complaints about powder coating products have increased, mainly focusing on issues such as weather resistance, alkali resistance, and water resistance. This needs to be highly valued by domestic powder coating manufacturers.