Dominated by multinational companies in the field of high-adhesive, in order to reduce production costs and expand market share, maintain its leading position in the global market in recent years, Asia's largest output of this adhesive area, implemented a series of mergers and reorganization , the global adhesives market, the focus of production and consumption gradually shifting to Asia.
Asia's position in the increasingly global, glue stick the overall slowdown in world economic development background, a bright spot in the global adhesives market. Adhesive application in various fields soaked to the national economy, particularly in packaging is everywhere, nothing less can be said that both adhesive and packaging are two independent and interdependent intimacy of the industry, both parties mutually power and promote each other. Adhesives industry itself rapidly to provide the community a lot of new high performance plastic species, but also to the environment of the new problems. Current function and application of adhesives has been widely recognized, and adhesive environmental problems are often easy to be ignored. Whether further development of environmental protection has become a bottleneck adhesive to address its environmental pollution problem has become urgent. Environmental, health and safety factors drive, and be widely used in footwear, packaging, construction, automotive and other fields of polyurethane adhesive, the same as the other began to solvent-free adhesive, water-based and reactive hot melt and other environment-friendly, high-performance direction, gradually to replace high VOC, a toxic category. According to experts, it has also become an important feature of the Asian adhesive market.
South Korea: The yearly growth of more than 8%
Chinese experts said the past two years, South Korea adhesive market, steady growth trend, the momentum will be continued, according to an annual growth rate of 8% to 10% of 2015 ~ 2018 market size will reach 2 billion dollars. Among the fastest growing areas of electronic, electrical, automotive, footwear, and shipbuilding functional adhesive. Expect the next few years, South Korea will further improve the adhesive formulations, raw materials and intermediates and R & D investment will increase. According to experts, the technology development, the Korean company's focus is environment-friendly adhesive, water-based emulsion, hot melt adhesives and reactive adhesives, and low-cost formula and the process is still a key factor in market competition. Functional adhesive can better meet the electrical and electronic, automotive and other needs of South Korea's leading industries, but because of the unique product performance requirements, South Korea from Japan and Europe, and import high-performance, high value-added products is not new, very successful, and will increase its R & D efforts.
Japan: pay attention to environmental safety and quality
With the economic recovery in previous years, steady improvement in Japan's adhesive production, environment-friendly adhesive which had a high proportion. At present, Japan adhesive market situation is increasing emphasis on the environment, safety and quality factors. In recent years, vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion (ethylene - vinyl acetate) EVA emulsion, reactive hot melt adhesives, cyanoacrylate adhesives, polyurethane, acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and adhesive α-allyl maleic anhydride etc., to the rapid development in the Japanese market. Japanese adhesive company in product development process, presents several major hot spots in general: functional laminated adhesive with additional functionality that is required, such as flame resistance and conductivity; fast bonding, that is quick Adhesive design strength, such as hot melt adhesives, fast curing acrylic adhesive, etc.; pressure-sensitive adhesive, that is the beginning of a lasting sticky, suitable for large area bonding, such as reactive hot melt; seal bonding, that is airtight and waterproof adhesive, such as car windshields, etc.; elastic adhesive, which called for relief bonding shear strength of another layer of both tear strength, such as epoxy-modified silicone adhesive; detachment bonding, which can be demolished after recycling.
In recent years, Japanese carpentry and construction, vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion, EVA emulsion and water-based isocyanate demand growth, paste porcelain and adhesive elastic the demand for panels began to show; According to experts, in packaging, recycled paper with non-fragmentation of hot melt adhesive, laminated products, acrylic emulsions and polyurethane dispersions based adhesive needs to expand; in the automotive field and interior parts with adhesives with reactive hot melt adhesive increased demand, closed-end beam light show with the needs of flexible hot melt adhesive; in electrical and electronic fields, multi-functional, fast UV curing adhesive to be welcomed.
China: surplus of popular and dependable, high-end surge in demand
China has become the world's adhesive production and consumption power. In 2007, China's production of adhesives and sealants for the 3.125 million tons (excluding the three formaldehyde glue), 11.53% growth over 2006; sales of 42.6 billion yuan, up 25.3%. Sales growth is higher than output growth, less because of raw materials rises, high-quality, high performance, rapid growth of high value-added products become important. The next few years, China adhesive market will remain more than 10% average annual growth rate. According to experts, including hot melt adhesives, reactive adhesives annual growth rate of more than 12%.
Adhesive market in China, most general-purpose product oversupply situation has not changed, and some high-performance, high-quality adhesives and adhesive products to the increased demand, such as for electrical and electronic equipment, precision instruments, automobiles, aerospace and aviation industry products. The rapid growth of market demand and environmental regulations to enforce energy conservation, the future of some water-based, thermoplastic, biodegradable, light curing, room temperature and low temperature curing and solvent-free and high solid content type and other environmental protection energy-saving products , part of the modified type, reaction type, multi-function type and other high-tech products, there will be greater development, growth rate will be higher than normal products. Another adhesive largest demand will come from the carpentry and construction, assembly and transport are the fastest growing area of demand. With an increasing degree of specialization, China adhesive quality and levels will be significantly increased, the production will be more concentrated.