Plastic paint is believed to be no stranger to coatings and related industries. It can be said that it is one of the applications with a large amount of metal pigments in addition to anticorrosive coatings. It can be said that it covers automotive shells, interiors, home appliances, decorations, etc. Any product. So what is the current development status of plastic paint? What is the future of the industry? What is the future development direction?
The development of plastic paint has gone through several iterations. At first, the era when metal pigments were dominated by foreign products was mainly high-performance aluminum and silver pastes. Plastic products had high brightness, strong metal, and beautiful appearance; the next era was domestic aluminum and silver. As the pulp became rich, plastic paints fell into a frantic contention. The consequence was that the product quality was getting worse and worse, and cheaper products flooded the market. It can be said that it was a chaotic stage, leading to a large number of export orders due to quality flow to Southeast Asian countries. This stage is now the stage in which it is located, which is more complicated and requires detailed analysis.
Conventional plastic paints and high-performance plastic paints are basically solvent-based. Due to environmental protection requirements and the maturity of water-based products, more and more water-based aluminum and silver pastes have been applied, and they have the possibility of replacing ordinary solvent-based paints, but the Performance coatings cannot be replaced at present, and the performance gap is still very large. There is no substitute in a short time or in the future. Therefore, conventional plastic paints will inevitably be widely water-based in the future. High-performance plastic paints will still be solvent-based in the future.