How does the "oil-to-water" work in Beijing's furniture industry affect the market?

Last year, when the head of Qumei Furniture, Zhao Ruihai announced that the company would start using water-based paint, the biggest challenge for companies to use water-based wood paint was technical issues.
It took nearly two years to prepare for the transformation of Qumei Furniture.
Zhao Ruihai said, “We must first figure out the production process and invite 8 to 10 painters to find the most suitable water-based wood paint for Qumei’s products.
Because the technical cost is also considered, it is not clear after three or four months.
Then it takes at least three months to buy equipment and build production workshops.
If the company wants to use imported equipment, it will take at least half a year.
Next, It will take another three months to put in equipment for manufacturing.
” Zhao Ruihai said that these products cannot be put into mass production immediately, because they have to conduct random inspections and return visits before they are launched on the market to ensure that there will be no problems with the water-based paint process.

"Oil-to-water" companies digesting costs become a problem

Wood paint is a paint used on wood products such as solid wood panels, wood-grain panels, bakelite boards, fiberboards, etc.
It can be divided into water-based paints and oil-based paints according to product types.
As a wood paint belonging to the category of industrial coatings, industrial coatings can be divided into water-based coatings, solvent-based coatings and powder coatings.
Among them, solvent-based coatings still occupies the leading position in global industrial coating technology, and the proportion reaches more than 75% of the total.

It is predicted that with Beijing as a pilot and driven by policies, the era of water-based paint has arrived.
In the next few years, oil-based paints will be completely withdrawn from the market and replaced by water-based paints that use water as a thinner, do not contain organic solvents, have low-carbon, energy-saving, non-flammable, non-explosive, and ultra-low emission water-based paints.
At present, not only in our country, but also in other countries related laws and regulations on reducing VOC emissions are also successively promulgated, of which water-based coatings play an important role.

How to absorb the increased costs of furniture manufacturing enterprises "changing oil to water" has become an important issue facing enterprises.
The increased cost is mainly reflected in the recycling of water-based coatings in the spraying process.
Large companies can basically solve the problem with the funds to buy sprayers, while small companies are relatively laborious.

For a long time, water-based paint is considered to be inferior to paint in terms of high temperature resistance and hardness.
However, paint experts said that this is not unsolvable.
A moderate increase in cost on similar dining table panels can make up for the lack of heat resistance of water-based paint.
After all, such problems do not exist in wardrobes and wooden beds, and they should be treated differently in terms of cost.

Regarding "oil-to-water", Xiao Min, head of Beijing Liming Wenyi Furniture, said that the company is in the experimental stage of converting small batches to mass production, mainly to solve technical problems.
"During the time the new standard was introduced, companies have been bidding, and are currently doing product stability experiments with several water-based paint brands.
" Xiao Min said, "It is a huge and complex project to change all the assembly lines to water-based paint.
The structure has to change, and the power aspect involves the use of electricity, which must also change.
Only the equipment and plant renovation has made a budget of 40 million yuan, and more than 10 million yuan has been spent.
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Some furniture companies also confessed, "For For the implementation of the new standard, although the government has given part of the start-up funds to the “oil-to-water” companies for early-stage research and development, and government procurement projects are supported by priority bidding qualifications, it is still hoped that water-based paints with high environmental protection standards can be promoted nationwide.
Technology, or some other preferential policies can be given to local enterprises in Beijing.
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Future impact on the consumer market

After furniture manufacturers implement "oil to water", what impact will it have on the consumer market?

For consumers, it is good news for furniture companies to reduce or prohibit the use of oil-based paints that are harmful to health.
After "oil-to-water", the environmental quality of furniture products themselves will also be greatly improved.
With the continuous improvement of people's requirements for quality of life, furniture products using water-based coatings are bound to be recognized by more and more consumers.

At the same time, the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau pointed out that the current environmental protection department mainly monitors the production link, not the circulation link.
In the field of furniture circulation in Beijing, not only the products produced by Beijing furniture companies, but also not all water-based paint products, consumers must be careful to distinguish when buying.
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