New trend of wood furniture coatings market

According to market research firm Technavio, the global wood furniture coatings market is expected to grow by $1.96 billion from 2019 to 2023. Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region with the largest market share of 60%. At present, the wood furniture coating resins are mainly polyurethane, nitro, acrylic and polyester, which are used to prepare solvent-based, water-based, powder and UV coatings. About two-thirds of the world's wood furniture coatings are solvent-based, and one-third are water-based, powder and UV.

Wood furniture is moving towards a solvent-free coating system

In order to comply with stricter environmental regulations, wood furniture manufacturers have to adopt more environmentally friendly products and technologies, while also looking for more efficient production methods, so there is a need to move from traditional solvent-based coating systems to solvent-free coating systems.

Although solvent-free coating systems currently account for a small share of the wood furniture coatings market, water-based coating systems, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, are developing rapidly, for example, many coating manufacturers in China are increasingly turning to water-based technology is a good example. In fact, in the automated production environment involving more flat-panel furniture, 100%UV and water-based UV technology is getting more and more favor due to its excellent endurance and fast production efficiency. In addition, in the coating industry, "oil to water" has also caused the market ecology of eliminating the weak and retaining the strong.

In recent years, the technology of wood furniture coatings has been developed in the direction of high performance and resins containing plant-based components, and then formulated low VOC, high performance and even multi-functional coatings. As renewable materials begin to replace the fossil components in paints, the environmental value and sustainability of paints will also be improved.

UV coating technology has become the mainstream of wood furniture

In general, the traditional painting in the wood furniture manufacturing is considered to be low production efficiency, poor construction environment, quality instability.

In recent years, UV technology is changing with each passing day, and the total investment cost of related equipment is reduced, making UV coating technology more economical. Basically, there are three options for wood furniture coating: 100% UV, water-based UV and reduced solvent-based UV. The emergence of UV coating not only makes the construction (painting) more environmentally friendly and the construction environment reduce damage to health, but also the product is stable; In general, the advantages of UV coating mainly include: high solid content of the product, good hardness, high transparency, excellent yellowing resistance, long activation period; High production efficiency; The cost of painting is low, half of the cost of conventional painting, and dozens of times the efficiency of conventional painting.

UV coating can meet the high-speed process production needs of furniture manufacturing enterprises, but also in line with the government and other environmental regulations, from the current development of coating technology, UV coating will become the main substitute for traditional coatings. With the continuous improvement of social environmental awareness, wood furniture coatings technology and products towards sustainable and eco-friendly development, at the same time, the emergence of new technologies, but also for the future market to create new business opportunities.

Guangdong Province for the whole of China's largest wood furniture manufacturing production, "China International paint Exhibition CHINACOAT" held in Guangzhou has become a Guangdong Province wood furniture manufacturers must come to participate in the event.