"Safety warehouse" - the future of the paint industry storage new model?

In mid-March, the China Coatings Industry Association submitted a report on the proposal to build a regional solvent-based coating safety warehouse to the relevant departments at a higher level, hoping to eliminate the safety hazards of the coating industry and reduce or even avoid safety accidents of coating enterprises by establishing a centralized warehouse.
China is already a large country of paint production and consumption, in 2015 the national paint production reached 17.17 million tons, of which solvent-based coatings accounted for about 50%. However, China's paint enterprises large but not strong, scattered, irregular transport status quo is also an indisputable fact. Especially in 2015, a number of consecutive safety incidents occurred, the paint companies to the forefront of the wind.
, why is the paint industry prone to accidents? How to prevent safety accidents in the coatings industry? On March 29, the reporter interviewed relevant experts and enterprises in the industry.Scatter enterprises like a time bomb
paint as a fine chemical industry in a large family, through coating construction, into coating, for buildings, all kinds of engineering, machinery, home appliances, furniture, toys, weapons and equipment, transportation and other protection and beautification of the role. During the "12th Five-Year" period, with the development of the national economy, China's paint industry developed rapidly, and the output and variety have increased substantially.
2011-2015, China's paint production increased from 10.7951 million tons to 17.1757 million tons, according to the China Coatings Industry Association. Coatings' annual profit increased 1.68 times, which is 1.07 times the rate of production growth.
" high demand, high production capacity hidden great risks. Dai Maozhen, chairman of Shandong Lidi Technology Co., Ltd., said that oil-based coatings contain up to 30% of the 200-solvent oil and about 20% of resins, especially home-made coatings inside the paint, curing agents and thinners, which are highly flammable and explosive dangerous solvent-based coatings, is the cause of oil-based paint accidents.
And the reporter noted that in the Hazardous Chemicals Catalog (2015 edition), more than 10 category entries in the 2002 edition were combined into one category entry, namely synthetic resins containing flammable solvents, paints, auxiliary materials, coatings and other products (closed cup flash point ≤60 degrees C). In the product category of coatings, the products listed in the catalogue are mainly solvent-based coatings, with a production of approximately 49% of total production, i.e. a production of approximately 8.416 million tons in 2015.
" market demand is large, profitable, resulting in many small workshop paint enterprises springing up, small paint enterprises extensive production is the biggest cause of accidents. Dai Maozhen told reporters that from a series of safety production accidents in 2015 to analyze, small paint enterprises become accident-risk groups. China's existing paint production enterprises as many as 8000, of which more than 2000 enterprises, the remaining 6000 belong to scattered, chaotic, poor nature of small enterprises, and even smaller workshop-style paint processing points hidden in remote urban and rural areas, the use of night covert production, like a time bomb, at any time there is a risk of dangerous accidents.Severy factors more than heavy solvent type is a disaster area
talking about the paint industry safety accident, Shandong Pentium Paint Co., Ltd. General Manager Gu Shigang believes that there are two main types of paint safety accidents, one is paint caused by fire or explosion, and the other is paint pollution caused by the environment, resulting in poisoning of residents or painters. Solvent-based coatings are more prone to these two types of accidents than water-based coatings because they contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Therefore, solvent-based coatings enterprises are the safety focus of the coating industry. According to incomplete statistics, seven of the eight safety production accidents in paint manufacturers in 2015 were caused by fire and explosion.
fire explosion reasons are many, Shandong Province Coatings Industry Association Secretary-General Yu Yongjiang said: "oil coating raw materials management irregularities, production equipment over-service, employees and other relevant people on the prohibition of pyroteotism paralysis inertial thinking, as well as mobile phones, motor vehicles and other potential sources of potential danger that may cause fire, are the cause of the fire." Yan Yongjiang
, believes that there are many safety problems for paint companies. First of all, non-standard coating enterprises in the production process of running, risking, dripping, leakage is the biggest hidden danger of safety accidents, especially the production of solvent-based coatings enterprises; Secondly, some paint enterprises because of the small site, production tasks beyond the original design scale, raw materials and finished products mixed together, including some toxic, irritating or flammable and explosive items, and poor ventilation; Third, some paint enterprises' production process is still in a backward state, the workshop is not equipped with flammable gas concentration alarm, fire automatic alarm and carbon dioxide automatic fire extinguishing facilities. Global Coatings Network learned that "the most important reason is that some paint companies lack a strict safety training system, the recruitment of new employees only after simple oral education, that is, induction work, not the performance of hazardous chemicals and poisoning, prevention and handling of accidents and other aspects of safety education." Yu Yongjiang stressed.
, Jiangsu Shuanghua Coatings Co. , Ltd. manager told reporters that the occurrence of accidents are actually preventable, such as strict control of blind fire; Strict and safe storage of flammable and explosive raw materials to avoid contact with open flames; Regular maintenance of machinery and electrical circuits to avoid mechanical accidents.
industry insiders believe that the transport of oil-based coatings also hidden accident crisis, for example, dangerous goods transport vehicle hardware and software is not in place, some dangerous goods transport vehicles overloaded speeding, at different time equipped with regular escorts, operators. More seriously, in order to reduce transportation costs, some paint companies will paint to no dangerous goods transport qualifications of ordinary truck transport, no doubt for the occurrence of accidents buried a greater hidden danger.To eliminate hidden dangers must work together to build a good safety warehouse
Interview reporters learned that, in order to eliminate the paint industry safety hazards, in the past year, the China Coatings Industry Association not only edited and published the Paint Industry Safety Management Compilation and other books, but also actively with the downstream automotive, containers, ships, construction machinery, construction steel structures and other industries docking, promote the use of safe and environmentally friendly water-based coatings, from the root causes to reduce the production and use of safety hazards in the process.
, some national paint enterprises after the development and expansion began to realize the importance of safe production, have strengthened the safety of production training for employees. For example, Huilong Coatings held the 2014 Safety Production Knowledge Competition, Hangzhou Paint Company held the Safety Production Month Mobilization Conference, Koshun Small Yellow Garden Factory held a special safety production month special activities.
sun Lianying, president of the China Coatings Industry Association, believes that solvent-based coatings are widely used in various special fields for their unique high performance, and even after another 20 years, solvent-based coatings still account for about 25% of the total amount of coatings. Solvent-based coatings are very easy to cause accidents, therefore, the standard management of solvent-based coatings safety work is not only imminent, but also a long way to go. In order to curb the occurrence of solvent-based coating accidents, the China Coatings Industry Association submitted to the relevant state departments "on the proposal to build a regional solvent-based coating safety warehouse report."
report, the form of warehouse construction can vary from place to place. For the first-tier cities with large paint consumption, consideration may be given to the construction of more than one joint warehouse; Paint has a certain consumption of the second line and below the city, may consider building a warehouse, or more than two adjacent cities jointly build a warehouse. Large-scale warehouses can be built at new points in existing chemical parks; Medium-sized warehouses may negotiate the construction of solvent-based coatings in local hazardous chemicals warehouses; Can also be built in the warehouse of large-scale merchants, to assist and mobilize its expansion, upgrading, to meet the requirements of local operation of solvent-based coatings.
, the China Coatings Industry Association has been on the preparation of regional solvent-based paint safety warehouse to the higher authorities to report to the higher authorities, to win the support of the higher authorities. Subsequently, the Association will further investigate and understand in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Bohai Rim regions, energies the support of local governments, the assistance of local paint associations, selects a test site, and assists relevant enterprises in the development of warehouse management methods. If the pilot is successful, they will promote the model within the industry.