National marine paint brand "living space" is greatly compressed upgrade is urgent

In the past 10 years, with the development of China's shipbuilding industry, the development of China's marine coatings has entered a new stage. Although the shipping market in recent years in a depressed state, China's marine coatings are also making new breakthroughs, and a number of marine chemical research institute Co. , Ltd. as the representative of the national marine paint brands. However, in general, domestic paint brands in technology research and development, business philosophy and after-sales service there is still a certain gap, especially in China, many foreign paint brands have "attacked the city slightly", occupying more than half of China's marine paint market, and the development of China's national marine paint brand formed a "siege" trend, the national marine paint brand "survival space" has been greatly compressed. In the current depressed situation of the shipping market, China's national ship paint brand in order to highlight the heavy siege, we must strengthen technical input and update, improve the overall level of technology, to achieve product upgrading. At the same time, continue to increase the strength of after-sales service, enhance the core competitiveness.basically meet domestic demand as China's earliest industry open to the outside world, the paint industry is the earliest with foreign brands to deal with the 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 to 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 marine coatings industry has also made many breakthroughs. Take the Marine Academy as an example, at present, the Marine Academy has become a domestic first-class, can compete with international well-known companies of high-tech enterprises, forming an international advanced ship coating product chain with independent intellectual property rights, in the country to take the lead in completing from toxic to non-toxic, underwater to water, cabin to cabin, conventional to functional type of the whole ship supporting system, such as ship primer, hull paint, deck paint, water tank paint, oil tank paint, special functional paint, etc.benefit from the rapid development of China's shipping market, from the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, China's marine coating production has achieved rapid development, and in the "12th Five-Year Plan" reached a peak at the beginning. However, with the domestic and foreign shipping market, the ship market into the downturn, "12th Five-Year Plan" period, China's marine paint production has also seen a relatively large fluctuation. Benefiting from a significant increase in new ship orders in 2010, china's ship coatings sales reached a peak of 500,000 tons in 2011. 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, orders for new ships have rebounded, with sales of 330,000 tons in 2014, up from the same period last year. Overall, it has obvious cyclical characteristics. At the beginning of the 12th Five-Year War, although ship paint sales reached a new high, raw material prices have been in a high position, with the sharp decline in sales in 2012, the profit margins of paint companies are under greater pressure. At the end of the 12th Five-Year Project, crude oil prices fell sharply, resin and solvent prices fell, and the cost pressure of marine coatings companies eased, and profit margins recovered.
years, with the
continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements and the call for energy conservation and emission reduction in the marine industry, new standards and new norms related to marine coatings have been introduced at home and abroad. From the domestic point of view, China's ship coating related standards and regulations to environmental protection and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-based. For the first time, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the voluntary standard of "Environmental Marking Product Technical Requirements for Ship Anti-fouling Paint", which was officially implemented on October 1, 2012. The standard puts forward the requirements for the limits of prohibited substances, harmful substances and instructions for use in ship anti-fouling coatings, and stipulates the terms and definitions, basic requirements, technical content and inspection methods of environmental marking products of ship anti-fouling coatings, which are applicable to all types of ship anti-fouling coatings.March 2014, theWater-based Coatings (HJ2537-2014), which was organized 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 requirements of substances that are not artificially added, increases the limit requirements of ethylene glycol ether and its ester substances, raises the limit requirements of volatile organic compounds, and raises the limit requirements for the total amount of benzene, toluene and ethyl benzene.
August 1, 2014, the country's first local VOC comprehensive emission mandatory standards - Tianjin "industrial enterprise volatile organic emission control standards" issued, prescribed coatings and ink production, automobile manufacturing and maintenance, furniture manufacturing, surface coating and other key industries and other industries volatile organic emissions concentration requirements.Internationally, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have issued the International Convention for the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems for Ships (AFS), the Standard for the Performance of Protected Coatings in Ship-specific Seawater Ballast Cabins and Bulk Carriers (PSPC) ), Annex 1 of the oil tanker cargo tank protection coating and anti-corrosion standards, "The performance standard of the crude oil tanker cargo tank protection coating" and Annex 2, "the performance standard of the alternative method of anti-corrosion protection of the cargo hold of the crude oil tanker" and "the performance standard of the protection coating of the bulk cargo ship and the oil tanker's empty tank".
domestic and foreign new standards, the introduction of new norms to the domestic marine coatings industry has brought a lot of pressure. In the face of the current paint industry green, energy-saving, environmental protection trends, domestic marine coatings enterprises to increase research and development of new marine coatings, marine 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.
closely integrated with the use of industry,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 Marine Chemical Institute officially passed the acceptance, which is the second batch of the national relying on the transfer institute and enterprise construction of the enterprise 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 5 to 10 years to reach the world's advanced level. It is understood that the key laboratory to build a high-level marine coatings research and development platform 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 in the new anti-fouling mechanism research, bionic anti-corrosion The research on the structure design of the coating, the new anti-fouling agent, the study of the corrosion and protection methods of metal and concrete in extreme corrosion environments, the synthesis of high-performance heavy anti-corrosion resins, the evaluation methods of the accelerated test and evaluation of durability, the research of functional coatings, the synthesis of functional resins and the research of processes have made breakthroughs.
At the end of 2010, 13 scientific research institutions and enterprises, including the Institute of Oceanographic Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 725th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Corporation and Qingdao Port (Group) Co., Ltd., joined forces to form the "Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation in marine anti-corrosion industry" in an attempt to build a marine anti-corrosion science and technology innovation industrial chain with "research-engineering demonstration-industrialization base" as the main line. According to reports, the alliance to solve the bridge, docks and other major coastal projects and oil, natural gas and other marine energy development process corrosion and protection issues as the background, mainly to study the traditional materials and new materials, including a variety of materials and surface treatment layer under the influence of marine environmental factors damaged causes, process mechanisms and corrosion control and monitoring technology, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in marine anti-corrosion coatings, marine anti-corrosion engineering and marine anti-corrosion equipment and other fields. Aiming at the international high-tech frontier, the alliance aims to meet the major technological needs in the development and utilization of marine resources, establish a diversified, multi-level innovation model of independent research and development and open cooperation, build a technological innovation system combining industry, industry, science and research, and enhance the overall strength of China's marine anti-corrosion industry technology.In March 2011, China Coatings Industry Association anti-corrosion coatings branch was announced in Beijing, anti-corrosion coatings branch is designed to discuss and exchange anti-corrosion coatings production enterprises and scientific research units in China's anti-corrosion coatings development status, development direction, development measures and industry norms, which will not only accelerate the development of our national defense anti-corrosion coating industry, improve the paint enterprise anti-corrosion coating technology, 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, anti-corrosion coatings branch also actively organize anti-corrosion coatings and related industry enterprises to carry out professional technical training, joint research institutes held special lectures, consulting services activities to focus industry efforts to promote development, so that anti-corrosion coatings industry in the process of rapid development 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 technology content, value-added aspects, the development of China's marine coatings and foreign top marine paint brands still have a large gap. Although, in recent years, the rapid development of domestic marine coatings enterprises, but there is still a widespread "low, small, scattered" problem, most of the market share is still occupied by foreign paint brands or joint venture paint brands. 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 piece of the high-end product market, most of China's marine coatings enterprises for low- and medium-end products, to supply anti-corrosion coatings mainly, low technology content, low added value of products, facing the same as "chicken ribs" embarrassing situation, high-performance anti-corrosion and high-end anti-fouling coatings market is still occupied by multinational enterprises. , the technical level of our defense coatings and anti-corrosion coatings 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 that the coating contains little or no substances that damage the environment. China's research and development of non-toxic environmentally friendly anti-fouling coating products slow progress, and foreign paint companies have developed such products. The development and development cycle of marine coatings is long, the investment is large, the technology is difficult and the risk is big, therefore, the foreign marine coatings research and development is 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, etc. formed a very strict and strict system.
, the development trend of coating integration is very obvious. Paint products are not sold on everything, coating process also need on-site guidance. "Three-point paint, seven-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, the construction team are some temporary patchwork of no practical experience of the contracting team. If the coating enterprise neglects the strict management and specification guidance of its coating process requirements, then good paint is also "hero useless".
, at present, domestic marine coatings enterprises also basically do not have global service capacity. At present, domestic construction of medium and high-end ships are generally export ships, long-term operation on international routes. In the course of navigation, once the ship needs dock repair, are near the port near the ship repair, which requires that including paint, including supporting materials can be provided in the nearest, so that the ship can complete the dock repair as fast as possible, put into operation. And from the current situation, domestic marine coatings enterprises do not yet have the ability to provide global service support.multi-pronged upgrading of the
in the face of the gap, the domestic marine paint industry is also trying to catch up. The first thing to do is to continuously increase investment in research and development, improve the technical level, improve product quality, improve the anti-fouling coatings and anti-corrosion coatings in the technical level. China can make full use of the marine anti-corrosion industry technology innovation strategic alliance and anti-corrosion coating branch and other industry organizations, to play a joint scientific research efforts to improve the level of marine paint development. At present, the Institute is making full use of its marine coatings national key laboratory, national joint engineering research center, post-doctoral mobile station, academician workstation and other innovative platform advantages, improve research and development efficiency and the transformation of scientific research results capacity, adhere to the "pre-research generation, research and development generation, production generation, reserve generation" guiding ideology, promote ships, Aerospace, advanced rail transportation, marine engineering, island reef construction, wind power, nuclear energy, new energy vehicles and other strategic emerging industries and major national economic projects urgently needed new anti-corrosion, anti-fouling, special functions and other high-performance protective coating materials and coatings series of research, complete key technology, enhance independent innovation capabilities and scientific research technology level, enhance technology reserves. , China's marine coatings enterprises should 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 be able to participate from the design stage of ships, greatly improve the opportunities for shipbuilders to use domestic coatings. And to provide customers with high-quality after-sales service is an important factor in determining the choice of shipowners and shipowners. Strong enterprises to be fully laid out, and no strength of enterprises can rely on shipping enterprises and other shipping distribution 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 points of paint, seven points of coating". The quality control of the coating construction process determines the coating effect. If the coating enterprises in the coating process lack of strict management and standard 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 adaptability of coatings to construction methods and construction processes, paint 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 coating standards, new norms, strengthen standardization work, and gradually improve the national standards, industry standards and enterprise standards for marine coatings.。