According to the specific regulations, after 2017, the furniture manufacturing industry in Beijing will completely ban the use of oil-based paints, that is, paint spraying.

According to reports, one of the main purposes of formulating new emission standards is to promote Beijing local furniture companies to replace all organic solvent coatings (oily coatings) used in wood products such as furniture into water-based coatings. Enterprises that do not replace will completely withdraw from the market.

In order to promote energy conservation and environmental protection, as early as January 26 this year, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the "Notice on the Collection of Consumption Tax on Coatings": approved by the State Council from February 1, 2015 on a nationwide basis. The consumption tax is levied on paints. The scope of collection includes production, entrusted processing and importation. The applicable tax rate is 4%. At the same time, the consumption of volatile organic compounds (VOC) content below 420 g / liter (inclusive) is exempt from consumption tax.

Analysts pointed out that these two major environmental protection policies directly address the current serious pollution of the two major industries of paints and furniture, and they are controlled by both hands and the upstream and downstream to expand the application range of waterborne coatings in industrial coatings.

“Oil to water”, why was it difficult to promote it before?

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions are one of the important sources of PM2.5. Data shows that 18% of volatile organic compounds are produced by conventional solvent-based paint emissions. The VOC emissions of waterborne wood lacquers account for only about one-tenth of the oil paint emissions. According to the monitoring data, after Qumei changed to water-based wood lacquer last year, the emission of VOC compared with oil paint was directly reduced by about 90%.

In fact, whether companies can achieve environmental protection of their own products has a lot to do with their own strength and technology. It is precisely because water-based paints have stricter requirements on technology and production processes, and the cost is high, which leads to low penetration rate in China.

According to the relevant person in charge of Carpoly Chemical Group Co., Ltd., in the 1940s, foreign waterborne coating technology gradually developed and matured, and it was applied to woodware. In 1980, waterborne coatings were officially commercialized in Denmark. In China, the industrialization of waterborne wood lacquer has been difficult. Water-based wood coatings have been in the forefront of the past two decades, and the well-known paint companies that have been involved in the country are hard to come by. In 1995, Dufang Coatings of Germany first entered the Chinese market and promoted its already established waterborne wood coating brand in Europe. Although its environmental performance is good, due to the high price, the climate of China's application of water-based paint failed to form. The product is "not satisfied with water and soil." In 1996, Shandong Dongmei Limei became the first company in China to produce waterborne wood coatings, but it declined in 2000. Shenzhen Qibao Chemical Co., Ltd. rushed into the market in 2003, claiming that its products solved the quality and cost of water-based paints. However, after several years, the market response was flat.

The reporter learned from the Beijing Furniture Industry Association that the equipment transformation work of the production-type member companies registered in the association has been started one after another. Except for Qumei Furniture, which has been comprehensively “oil-to-water” last year, the top 100 furniture has also completed “oil”. The “Water Improvement” project, Dawn Wenyi, Ronglin and other large and medium-sized enterprises are in full swing. Water-based paints have different effects on different furniture. They need to be continuously tested and tested to adjust to the best gloss. It is also necessary to introduce and modify the production line. According to Ren Shuqin, vice president and secretary general of the association, there are also some companies that are hearing about the location of the site, mainly based on cost considerations.

It is reported that the standard implementation is divided into two phases. The first phase starts from July 1 to December 31 of next year, and lasts for one and a half years. The volatile organic compounds in the paint that are required to be used by the enterprise are not more than specified. Limits, standards such as plant boundaries, non-closed paint shop locations, door windows that can be opened in closed paint shops, and other non-organized VOC emission monitoring point concentration limits are also required. From January 1, 2017, the second phase of the stricter requirements will be implemented, that is, the Beijing furniture manufacturing industry prohibits the use of organic solvent (oily) paint spraying process. According to industry commentary, in the face of severe VOC emission standards and strict requirements of the second phase, Beijing production-type furniture enterprises have rushed to change the production process, aiming at changing oil-based paints to water-based paints.

Furniture factory "oil to water" has to go three

For production furniture companies, the cost of using water-based paint is 30% higher than that of traditional oil paints, and even up to 50%.

“The high cost of water-based wood lacquer, high brushing requirements, and difficult transformation of production lines are the three main reasons why most furniture companies are reluctant to change water-based wood lacquers,” said Tan Chunlei, a paint expert.

According to relevant surveys, less than 15% of furniture manufacturers in the industry currently use water-based paints. Relevant data show that at least half of the more than 1,000 furniture manufacturing enterprises in the city are still using oil-based paints. The full replacement of water-based paints will increase the production cost of enterprises to a certain extent, but relevant departments will also transform such technologies. Incorporate into the technical reform bonus support.

A staff member of a brand paints said in an interview with Beijing Evening News Home Weekly that it is not a problem of the production capacity of water-based paint companies, but that there is not such a large demand in the market. Nowadays, driven by policy, there is demand. Does it mean that the situation of water-based paint instead of oil paint is at your fingertips?

For the coatings industry, the implementation of the new standard is both a major test and a rare opportunity. It is understood that there are a lot of coating companies that are also doing water-based paints on the market, and there are more and more trends. However, due to market consumption restrictions, there are not many large-scale application of wood products. In other words, as a new thing in the ascendant period, there are only a few successful brand companies.

“In terms of Beijing manufacturing enterprises, Qumei and Ruichi have been rebuilt, and Kebao and TATA have also been changed. There are many other companies that are also discussing cooperation with us and are in the preparatory stage.” Zhanchen Coating National North District Waterborne Paint Liu Jianping, the person in charge of the market, told the Beijing Evening News Home Weekly reporter that cabinets and wooden doors are also within the scope of Beijing's wooden furniture discharge standards.

When asked about the cycle of changing the water-based paint, Liu Jianping replied: "This company needs two or three months, and some have more than half a year. This is in line with the scale of the enterprise transformation, the existing factory transformation conditions, the company's progress control, etc. Related factors."

Last year, Zhao Ruihai, the chairman of Qumei Furniture, announced that the company's entire line of water-based paints was introduced. For enterprises, the biggest challenge in using water-based wood lacquers is technical problems. When talking about the preparations for their renovation for two years, Zhao Ruihai said: "We must first understand the production process, please 8 to 10 painters, let them find the most suitable water-based wood paint for Qumei products, because It is necessary to take into account the technical cost problem, so there is no three or four months to fundamentally demonstrate that it is not clear. Then buy equipment and build a production workshop. These things take at least three months. If the company wants to use imported equipment, this part will last for half a year. Equipment, manufacturing and production, it took another three months." Zhao Ruihai said that these products can not be put into mass production immediately, because the product should be sampled and returned before the market is launched to ensure that this water-based paint process will not problem appear.

“Oil to water” needs to balance cost and effect

Some people speculate that in Beijing pilot, under the policy drive, the era of water-based paint has arrived. In the next few years, oil paint will completely withdraw from the market, replaced by water as a thinner, without organic solvents, with low carbon energy and no burning. Explosive, ultra-low-emission water paint. Furniture companies either actively transform or “have to” transform.

Wood lacquer is used for wood products such as solid wood panels, wood grain panels, rubber wood panels, fiberboards, etc. It can be divided into water-based paints and oil-based paints according to product types. As a wood lacquer belonging to the industrial coating category, industrial coatings can be classified into water-based coatings, solvent-based coatings and powder coatings. Solvent-based coatings still occupy the leading position in the global industrial coatings technology, and the proportion reaches more than 75% of the total. Not only domestically, the laws and regulations that require reduction of VOC emissions in various countries around the world are being improved. Water-based coatings play an important role.

Cost is the most important factor for enterprises in furniture painting. How to balance cost and effect is the most troublesome problem for furniture companies. "As far as I know, after changing to water-based paint, how to digest the increased cost, this is the most difficult problem for furniture manufacturers." Mr. Wang, a water-based paint brand sales manager, told reporters, "Because, thousands of furniture in Beijing More than half of the production companies have plans to move out, which is not good news for all water-based paint companies."

And what about the furniture manufacturers left after upgrading to water-based paint?

Beijing Liming Wenyi Furniture Co., Ltd. is located near the Maji Bridge in the South Sixth Ring Road. For the “oil to water”, general manager Xiao Min said that the company is in the pilot stage of small batches to mass production, mainly to solve technical problems. “The new standard has been bidding for this time. At present, several water-based paint brands are doing product stability experiments.” Xiao Min said, “It is a large and complicated project to change all the lines into water-based paint. The whole process structure has to be Change, the power involved in the use of electricity, but also have to change. Only the transformation of equipment and plant we gave a budget of 40 million yuan, has now spent more than 10 million yuan."

A furniture company who did not want to be named expressed "unevenness" to Beijing Evening News Home Weekly reporter. VOC paint is not forbidden in the country. The inventory of dealers and manufacturers is huge, and it is not allowed to be used by Beijing furniture manufacturers. The third and fourth tier cities in the surrounding and inland areas are transferred, and the production of Hu products there will also be distributed to the whole country. For ordinary consumers, it is good news for furniture companies to reduce or prohibit the use of oil-based paints that are harmful to health, but it is not just products produced by Beijing furniture companies in the field of furniture circulation in Beijing.

“Beijing’s furniture manufacturing companies are more 'lack of losses.' Although the government has given the “oil-to-water” enterprise part of the start-up funds for pre-development, as well as the government procurement project’s priority bidding support, everyone still hopes to continue nationwide. Promote water-based paint technology with high environmental standards, or have other preferential policies that are tilted to local companies.” The person said, “How to digest the increased costs for furniture manufacturers that continue to stay in Beijing is a problem that must be considered. ""

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau also pointed out that the current environmental protection department mainly monitors the production process, and the circulation link is not included here.

That is to say, even under the strictest limit, the wooden furniture sold in Beijing is not all water-based paint products.

Will furniture increase the price?

Will companies that have changed their water-based paints increase their prices?

Industry analysts believe that this is a market behavior, the equivalent is to ask: Selling expensive consumers can accept not accept?

“We may be earlier than Qumei Furniture’s oil-to-water.” He Hongyi, general manager of Beijing Baiqiang New Home Trading Co., Ltd. told reporters that the factory’s top 100 furniture in the Niulanshan area of ​​Shunyi District is ahead of the government’s requirement to activate water. Paint, retrofit equipment and processes do cost a lot of money, but the original intention is to improve the environmental quality of solid wood products, not just for technological transformation. "This is not a question of money, it is a question of corporate strategic thinking." He Hongyi believes that "our consumers are not afraid of you, because they have a pursuit of quality of life, considering the cost performance, so the sales of our products will not decrease. It will only rise."

The cost of upgrading is mainly reflected in the recycling of water-based paints in the spraying process. Large enterprises can basically solve this problem by buying a spray machine. Small enterprises may need to bite their teeth. But the most important thing is to change the long-term misunderstanding of water-based paints by consumers.

Water-based paints have long been attacked by paint companies because of their high temperature resistance and hardness. However, paint experts said that this is not unsolvable. The moderate increase in cost on a similar dining table panel is enough to make up for the lack of heat resistance of water-based paints. After all, there is no such problem in wardrobes and wooden beds, and the cost should be treated differently, like "one point." Money, a piece of goods, and the increased cost is still very worthwhile compared to the health benefits of using wood-based water-based paints at home, especially for families with old people and children.

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