The Asian Adhesive Market Highlights Increasing Global Position

In order to reduce production costs, expand market share, and maintain its leading position in the global market, multinational corporations, which dominate the medium and high-end adhesives, have implemented a series of mergers and reorganization actions in the largest adhesive production region in Asia in recent years. The focus of production and consumption in the adhesive market has gradually shifted to Asia. At the 2008 vinyl acetate and downstream market forum held on September 11-12, Chen Biaoshan, chairman of the Asian Adhesives Association, said that the Asian market has become increasingly global and has become a global adhesive in the context of the overall slowdown in world economic development. The market is bright and bright. The application of adhesives has penetrated into all areas of the national economy. In particular, the packaging field is everywhere and everywhere. It can be said that adhesives and packaging are two intimate and independent industries that are independent and interdependent. promote. The advent of the adhesive industry itself has provided the society with many new types of rubber with excellent performance, and it has also brought new problems to the environment. Current adhesive functions and applications have received widespread attention, and adhesive environmental issues are often easily overlooked. Whether environmental protection has become a bottleneck for the further development of adhesives, and the solution to the environmental pollution problem has become a top priority. Under the drive of environmental protection, health and safety factors, polyurethane adhesives, which are widely used in the fields of footwear, packaging, construction, and automobiles, are starting to be solvent-free, water-based, and reactive hot-melt, etc. , high-performance direction to gradually replace the VOC high, toxic category. This has also become an important feature of the Asian adhesive market.

South Korea: Market grows more than 8% annually

In the past two years, the adhesive market in South Korea has maintained a steady growth trend. This trend will continue. Based on an average annual growth rate of 8 to 10%, the market size will reach US$2 billion by 2015-2018. Among them, the fastest growing areas are electrical and electronic, automotive, footwear and shipbuilding functional adhesives. It is expected that in the coming years, Korea will further improve its adhesive formulation, and investment in raw materials and intermediates and R&D will increase. In terms of technology development, Korean companies focus on environmentally friendly adhesives, water-based emulsions, hot melt adhesives, and reactive adhesives, while low-cost formulations and processes are still key factors in participating in market competition. Functional adhesives can better meet the needs of Korea's leading industries such as electronics, electronics, and automobiles. However, due to the unique demand for product performance, South Korea's imports of high-performance, high-value-added products from Japan and Europe are not It is very successful and will increase its own R&D efforts in the future.

Japan: Focus on Environmental Safety and Quality

With the economic recovery in previous years, the production of adhesives in Japan has steadily increased, with environmentally friendly adhesives accounting for a relatively high percentage. At present, the development trend of the Japanese adhesive market is an increasing emphasis on environmental, safety and quality factors. In recent years vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion, (ethylene-vinyl acetate) EVA emulsion, reactive hot melt adhesive, cyanoacrylate adhesive, polyurethane, acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive, and alpha-ene maleic anhydride adhesive, etc. The product has developed rapidly in the Japanese market. Chen Biaoshan pointed out that in the process of product development, Japanese adhesive companies generally exhibit several major hot spots: functional adhesion, that is, adhesives are required to have additional functions, such as flame retardance and conductivity, and fast adhesion, that is, rapid acquisition of adhesive. Adhesive design strength, such as hot-melt adhesives, fast-curing acrylate adhesives, etc.; pressure-sensitive adhesive, ie, long-lasting initial adhesiveness, suitable for large-area bonding, such as reactive hot melt adhesives; sealing adhesives, ie Adhesive and waterproof adhesives, such as automotive windshields, etc.; elastic adhesive, which requires pressure relief adhesive layer both shear strength and tear strength, such as modified silicone epoxy adhesive; release type adhesive, that can Recycling after dismantling.

In recent years, the demand for vinyl acetate copolymer emulsions, EVA emulsions, and water-based isocyanates has increased in the fields of woodworking and construction in Japan. Demand for adhesives for ceramics and panels has begun to appear. In the field of packaging, recycling The demand for non-crushable hot melt adhesives for paper, acrylic emulsions for laminated products, and polyurethane dispersion adhesives has increased. In the automotive sector, the demand for adhesive-containing parts and reactive hot melt adhesives for interiors has increased. The demand for flexible hot melt adhesives for closed beam lamps has emerged; in the field of electronic and electrical appliances, multifunctional, fast UV curing adhesives have been welcomed. China: Soaring demand for high-grade goods

At present, China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of adhesives. In 2007, China's production of adhesives and sealants was 3.125 million tons (excluding triacetal), which represented an increase of 11.53% over 2006; sales of 42.6 billion yuan, an increase of 25.3% over the previous year. The increase in sales is much higher than the increase in output. After deducting the factors of rising raw materials, the rapid growth of high-quality, high-performance, and high-value-added products has become an important reason. It is expected that in the next few years, the Chinese adhesive market will continue to grow at an average annual rate of over 10%. The annual growth rate of hot melt adhesives and reactive adhesives will exceed 12%.

Chen Biaoshan told reporters that in the Chinese adhesive market, the situation of oversupply of most general-purpose products has not changed, and the demand for some high-performance, high-quality adhesives and adhesive products has increased, such as for electronic and electrical precision instrumentation. , automotive, aerospace and other industries products. Due to the rapid growth of market demand and the enforcement of environmental protection and energy conservation regulations, some water-based, hot-melt, biodegradable, photocurable, room temperature and low temperature curing types, and solvent-free and high solids type environmental protection and energy-saving products will be developed in the future. Some high-tech products such as modified, reactive, and multi-functional will have greater development, and the growth rate will be higher than that of general products. In addition, the largest demand for adhesives will come from the woodworking and construction industries, while the assembly and transportation industry will see the fastest growing demand. As the degree of specialization continues to increase, the quality and level of China's adhesive products will increase significantly, and production will become more concentrated.