Highlight the heavy siege to promote the upgrading of domestic marine coatings.

In the past 10 years, with the development of China's shipbuilding industry,
development of
marine coatings industry has also entered a new stage. Although the shipping market has been in a depressed state in recent years, China's ship
paint
is also making new breakthroughs, and a number of marine chemical research institute Co. , Ltd. as the representative of the national ship
paint brand
. However, in general, domestic paint brands in technology research and development, business philosophy and after-sales service there is still a certain gap, especially many foreign paint brands in China have "attacked the city", occupying most of China's marine paint market, and the development of China's national marine paint brand formed a "surrounding" trend, the national marine paint brand "survival space" has been greatly compressed. In the current situation of ship market depression, China's national ship paint brand to highlight the heavy siege, we must strengthen technical input and renewal, improve the overall level of technology, to achieve product upgrading. At the same time, continue to increase the intensity of after-sales service, improve the core competitiveness.
basically meet domestic demand
as China's earliest open to the outside world industry, paint industry is the first to deal with foreign brands industry. Although the entry of foreign paint brands has brought great pressure to the development of China's marine coatings, but it is undeniable that they have also brought advanced technology, management experience, business philosophy, and to a certain extent, promote the development of China's marine coatings industry. Especially in the past ten years, thanks to the rapid development of China's shipbuilding industry, China's shipbuilding coating industry has also made many breakthroughs. Take the haihua hospital as an example, at present, the sea chemical hospital has become a domestic first-class, can compete with international well-known companies of high-tech enterprises, formed an international advanced ship coating product chain with independent intellectual property rights, in the country took the lead in completing from toxic to non-toxic, underwater to water, cabin to cabin to cabin, conventional to functional ship supporting system, such as ship primer, hull paint, deck paint, water tank paint, oil tank paint, special functional coatings, etc.
the rapid development of China's ship market, from the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, China's ship coating production has achieved rapid development, and in the "12th Five-Year Plan" initially reached a peak. However, with the domestic and foreign shipping market, the shipping market into the downturn, "12th Five-Year Plan" period, China's ship paint production has also appeared a relatively large fluctuation. Benefiting from the significant increase in new ship orders in 2010, in 2011, the country's ship coating sales reached 500,000 tons, reaching a peak in recent years. With the sudden and significant reduction in orders since then, sales of marine coatings have also been affected, from 380,000 tons in 2012 to 300,000 tons in 2013, showing a decreasing trend year by year. Since the second half of 2013, new ship orders have rebounded, with sales of 330,000 tons in 2014, up from a year earlier. Overall, it has obvious periodic characteristics. At the beginning of the 12th Five-Year Report, although the sales volume of marine coatings reached a new high, but raw material prices have been in a high position, with the 2012 sales fell sharply,
coating enterprises
profit margins are facing greater pressure. At the end of the 12th Five-Year Report, crude oil prices fell sharply, resin and solvent prices fell, and the cost pressure on marine coatings companies eased before profit margins rebounded.
standard norms are getting higher and higher
in recent years, with the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements and the ship industry energy conservation and emission reduction calls are getting higher and higher, the introduction of new standards and norms related to marine coatings at home and abroad is also more and more. From the domestic point of view, China's marine coating-related standards and regulations to environmental protection and volatile organic compounds (VOC) mainly. For the first time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the voluntary standard of "Technical Requirements for Anti-fouling Paint for Ships", which was officially implemented on October 1, 2012. The standard puts forward the requirements of prohibited substances, hazardous substance limits and instruction manuals in ship anti-fouling coatings, and stipulates the terms and definitions, basic requirements, technical contents and inspection methods of environmental mark products of anti-fouling coatings for ships, and is applicable to all kinds of anti-fouling coatings of ships.
March 2014, the Technical Requirements
water-based Coatings(HJ2537-2014), which was formulated by the Science and Technology Standards Division of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and drafted by the Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, was officially released and implemented in July of that year. The new standard adjusts the scope of application of the standard, adjusts the material requirements that cannot be artificially added, increases the limit requirements for glycol ethers and their esters, raises the limit requirements for volatile organic compounds, and raises the limit requirements for the total amount of benzene, toluene and ethyl benzene.
In August 1, 2014, the country's first local VOC comprehensive emission mandatory standards - Tianjin City, "industrial enterprises volatile organic matter emission control standards" issued, the coating and ink production, automobile manufacturing and maintenance, furniture manufacturing, surface coating and other key industries and other industries volatile organic material emission concentration requirements.
From an international perspective, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have issued the International Convention for the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Bottom Systems for Ships (AFS), the Standards for the Protection of Coatings in Ship-specific Marine Ballast Cabins and Bulk Ships (PSPC) Annex 1 Of the oil tanker cargo tank protection coating and corrosion protection standards, such as the Crude Oil Tanker Cargo Tank Protection Coating Performance Standard and Annex 2, the Crude Oil Tanker Cargo Tank Protection Alternative Method Performance Standard, and the Bulk and Tanker Air Tank Protection Coating Performance Standard, etc.
domestic and foreign new standards, the introduction of new norms to the domestic marine coatings industry has brought a lot of pressure. Facing the current development trend of green, energy saving and environmental protection in the paint industry, domestic marine coating enterprises should increase the research and development of new marine coatings, focusing on ship coatings and technological innovation to meet the relevant requirements of product upgrading, the development of better performance, more advanced technology, more environmentally friendly marine coatings.
the close integration of industry, industry, science and research
in recent years, China's marine anti-corrosion and anti-fouling research professional institutions have gradually increased and improved. In 2013, relying on the marine coatings national key laboratory established by the Haihua Institute officially passed the acceptance, this is the second batch of the country relying on the transfer of the hospital and enterprise construction of the national key laboratory. The approved construction of the laboratory aims to raise the level of marine coating research and development and industrialization in China, so that China's marine coating technology in 5 to 10 years to reach the world's advanced level. It is understood that the key laboratory to build a high-level research and development platform for marine coatings as the goal, the establishment of marine coatings basic research, applied research and engineering test research three-level research and development chain, mainly to marine anti-fouling technology, heavy anti-corrosion technology and functional coating technology as the research direction, and strive to new anti-fouling mechanism research, bionic anti-corrosion Breakthroughs have been made in common technologies such as coating structure design, new anti-fouling agents, metal and concrete corrosion machinery and protection methods in extreme corrosion environments, high-performance heavy anti-corrosion resin synthesis, durability acceleration testing and evaluation methods, functional coating engineering research, functional resin synthesis and process research.
At the end of 2010, 13 scientific research institutions and enterprises, including the Institute of Oceanography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 725th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Corporation, Qingdao Port (Group) Co., Ltd., joined forces to form the "Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation in the Marine Anti-corrosion Industry" to try to build a marine anti-corrosion science and technology innovation industry chain with "research-engineering demonstration-industrialization base" as the main line. According to reports, the alliance to solve major coastal projects such as bridges, docks and oil, natural gas and other marine energy development process corrosion and protection issues as the background, the main research including traditional materials and new materials, including a variety of materials and surface treatment layers under the influence of marine environmental factors damage, process mechanism and corrosion control and monitoring technology, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in the marine
corrosion coatings
, marine anti-corrosion projects and marine anti-corrosion equipment and other fields. Aiming at the international high-tech frontier, the alliance aims at the major technological needs in the exploitation and utilization of marine resources, establishes a diversified and multi-level innovation model of independent research and development and open cooperation, builds a technological innovation system combining industry production, research and development, and enhances the overall strength of China's marine anti-corrosion industry technology.
In March 2011, the anti-corrosion coating branch of the China Coatings Industry Association was announced in Beijing, and the anti-corrosion coatings branch aims to discuss and exchange the current situation, development direction, development measures and industry norms of anti-corrosion coatings in China, which will not only accelerate the localization of our national defense anti-corrosion coating industry, improve the technology of anti-corrosion coatings of paint enterprises, but also accelerate the common development of China's coatings and coatings. After the establishment of the anti-corrosion coating branch, actively participate in the national anti-corrosion industry standards, revision work, and organize the implementation of supervision. At the same time, the anti-corrosion coating branch also actively organized anti-corrosion coatings and their related industry enterprises to carry out professional technical training, joint research institutes held lectures, carry out advisory services activities to focus industry efforts to promote development, so that the anti-corrosion coatings industry in the rapid development process can follow a good, healthy and orderly road forward.
and foreign brands still have a gap
however, at present, whether from the production or product technical content, value-added point of view, the development of China's marine coatings and foreign top ship paint brands there is still a big gap. Although, in recent years, the development of domestic marine coating enterprises is very fast, but there are still widespread "low, small, scattered" problems, most of the market share is still foreign paint brands or joint venture paint brands occupied. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the top five enterprises in China's marine coatings market were Jotun Corporation, International Coatings (IP), China Coatings Co., Ltd. (CMP), Hempel and PPG. Due to the lack of core competitiveness, in addition to a few enterprises can get a small share of the high-end product market, China's marine coatings enterprises are mostly low-end products, to supply anti-corrosion coatings mainly, low technical content, low added value of products, facing the embarrassing situation like "chicken ribs", high-performance anti-corrosion and high-end anti-fouling coatings market is still occupied by multinational enterprises.
, my defense coatings and anti-corrosion coatings technology level and foreign countries have a large gap. As far as marine anti-fouling coatings are, non-toxic and environmental protection is the trend of development, requiring coatings to contain little or no substances that damage the environment. China's research and development of non-toxic environmental protection coating products slow progress, and foreign paint companies have developed such products. Marine coatings development and development cycle is long, large investment, high technical difficulties and risks, therefore, foreign marine coatings research and development mainly concentrated in the strength of large companies. These companies have hundreds of years of paint-related development history, in the paint production and supply, quality supervision, coating specifications and coating site management and other aspects of the formation of a very strict and strict system.
, the development trend of coating integration is very obvious. Paint products are not sold on everything, the coating process also needs on-site guidance. "Three-point
,
construction", the quality control of the coating construction process is essential to the coating effect of a new ship. Domestic paint customers are mostly private small and medium-sized shipping enterprises, its coating environment is harsh, poor conditions, construction team are some temporary patchwork of no practical experience of the contract team. If coating enterprises ignore the strict management and standard guidance of their coating process requirements, good paint is also "heroic useless".
, at present, domestic marine coating enterprises also basically do not have the global service capacity. At present, domestic construction of medium and high-end ships are generally export ships, long-term operation in international routes. In the course of navigation, once the ship needs docking repair, are close to find the port near the ship repair, which requires that supporting materials including paint can be provided nearby, so that the ship can complete docking repair as quickly as possible, put into operation. From the current situation, domestic marine coating enterprises do not yet have the ability to provide global service support.
multi-pronged upgrade and replacement of
in the face of gaps, the domestic marine coatings industry is also trying to catch up. The first thing to do is to continuously increase investment in research and development, improve the level of technology, improve product quality, improve the level of anti-fouling coatings and anti-corrosion coatings. China can make full use of the marine anti-corrosion industry technology innovation strategic alliance and anti-corrosion coating branch and other industry organizations, play the joint efforts of scientific research, improve the level of development of marine coatings. At present, haihua Institute is making full use of its marine coatings national key laboratory, the National Joint Engineering Research Center, post-doctoral mobile station, academician workstation and other innovative platform advantages, improve research and development efficiency and the transformation capacity of scientific research results, adhere to the "pre-research generation, research and development generation, production generation, reserve generation" guiding ideology, promote the ship , aerospace, advanced rail transit, marine engineering, island and reef construction, wind power, nuclear energy, new energy vehicles and other strategic emerging industries and major projects in the national economy in urgent need of new anti-corrosion, anti-fouling, special functions and other high-performance protective coating materials and coatings series of research, complete key technologies, enhance independent innovation capabilities and scientific research technology level, enhance technical reserves.
, China's shipbuilding coating enterprises to strengthen cooperation with shipbuilding enterprises, and attach great importance to the establishment of after-sales service network. By strengthening cooperation with shipbuilders, and strive to participate from the design stage of ships, greatly improve the opportunities for shipbuilders to use domestic coatings. Providing customers with high-quality after-sales service is an important factor in determining the choice of shipyards and shipowners. Strong enterprises to a comprehensive layout, but no strength of enterprises can rely on shipping enterprises and other shipping enterprises of the global service network.
, enterprises should pay full attention to the coating link, to achieve the integrated development of coating and coating. As the saying goes, "three-point coating, seven-point coating". The quality control of the coating construction process determines the coating effect. If the coating enterprises in the coating process link lack of strict management and norms of guidance, then no good paint will have a good performance. Therefore, coating enterprises should pay attention to the construction performance of anti-corrosion coatings, strengthen the coating on the construction method and construction process adaptability, coating adaptability to the construction environment research, and constantly optimize and improve the comprehensive performance of products, strengthen the coating supporting system and performance evaluation, improve the scientific and reasonable supporting system, so that products adapt to the requirements of different corrosive environment.
in addition, China should give full play to the role of China's coating industry technology innovation alliance, effectively unite the strength of enterprises, research institutes, form a joint development, complementary advantages, benefit-sharing, risk-sharing mechanism, effectively enhance the industry's technological innovation capabilities, pay close attention to international standards, actively respond to new standards, new norms, strengthen standardization work, and gradually improve the national standards of marine coatings.