With the rapid development in recent years, Asian shipbuilding industry, ship manufacturing accessories industry also revitalize marine coatings as an important ship in the manufacture of raw materials, has gradually become the focus of the development project of coatings enterprises, marine coatings market demand also follow the water up and boats.

Since 2002, the market of marine coatings has been increasing steadily, with the market growing at an average annual rate of between 6% and 8%. Asia currently accounts for almost 60% of global ship coatings market share in Asia, the corresponding terminal concentration is also high, ship maintenance also need a lot of paint, the 2007 Asian marine coatings market size of about $2 billion 690 million.

The good momentum of Asia's economy has driven demand for high quality marine coatings, with about 75% of the Asian shipping market coming from china. The rapid growth of the Asian shipping industry will undoubtedly contribute to the orderly development of the marine coatings industry. Some Japanese coatings companies are more optimistic about the potential of China's market, and gradually shifted their business focus to the Chinese market. Not only that, American and European paint makers are moving closer to Asia, making the industry more competitive.

International ship paint manufacturers have set up factories in China, Denmark Hempel, British IP, Norway Jotun, Kansai, Japan, British Earl S Mar Caron (now PPG) one after another in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Tianjin, Kunshan and other places to invest. In June 3, 2009 the new is Nippon Paint Zhangjiagang Co. Ltd., Japan's Nippon Paint is Japan's Nippon subsidiary, its original products with Norway, Japan and Germany, Veritas certification. A project of the establishment of the Zhangjiagang Nippon Paint Co., a total investment of $7 million 500 thousand, an annual output of 15 thousand tons of high performance marine coatings, the project successfully completed, will further enhance the Chinese in Nippon Paint and global Nippon share. > > Nippon Paint Co. Ltd. Zhangjiagang opening.

Multinational enterprises usually pay more attention to product quality and on-site service, while local enterprises usually attract and maintain customer resources through price advantage. Under the financial crisis, the local enterprises and foreign enterprises in Asia ship coatings are putting on a fierce battle for the market. Overall, the advantages of a combination of technology, price, service is the only way for the enterprise market, whether domestic enterprises or foreign enterprises, planning the future development direction of the enterprise in this respect is the ultimate trump card to win the market.