Wood flooring has the characteristics of natural beauty, warm and comfortable, safe and practical, and is an important ground paving material. China's wood flooring industry after nearly 30 years of rapid development, showing a multi-category, multi-functional diversified product pattern, the establishment of a complete industrial system, and the formation of large-scale industrial clusters, the entire industry has entered a more mature stage. At the same time, due to the shortage of high-quality wood resources, market competition and other factors, China's wood flooring industry is facing serious challenges.
According to the statistics of the China National Forest Product Industry Association, in 2019, the total sales volume of wood-bamboo flooring enterprises with a certain scale in China was about 424.6 million m2, of which, the sales volume of Laminate Wood Flooring (impregnated paper laminated wood flooring) showed a downward trend as a whole, and the sales volume of solid wood flooring showed a downward trend after an overall rise. The sales volume of solid wood composite flooring is on the rise.
Problems encountered in the development of wood flooring industry in China
1. The supply of high-quality wood resources for wood flooring is limited, and more than 85% of the high-quality broadleaf trees used in China are imported wood. However, with the gradual implementation of the export restriction policy of foreign wood resources, the total amount of high-quality wood resources that can be imported is reduced, and the import price continues to rise.
2, Wood Floor market growth is slow, wood floor market space is squeezed by other materials, but also shows that the wood floor industry has a lot of room for development.
3, the industry threshold is low, the innovation ability is not high traditional wood flooring industry production technology is low, product homogenization is strict, enterprise innovation awareness and innovation ability is insufficient.
Analysis of wood floor technology innovation trend
1, green products are the inevitable trend of the development of wood flooring industry
Green products refer to related products in the whole life cycle, production and use in line with the protection of the environment and human body and environmental protection products. Focus on the research and development of green products is the key direction of enterprise production and development. Water-based coatings have the advantages of low VOC release, and can obtain high adhesion and flexibility of the film, in energy conservation and environmental protection is very advantageous, but in China's wood flooring has not been popular, only a small number of enterprises began to promote.
2, flame retardant, antibacterial and other functional floor research and development efforts to increase
With the gradual implementation of China's real estate full decoration delivery policy, the development of wood floors with corresponding flame retardant grades has become the direction of concentrated technical research in the industry, in order to cope with the further extrusion of the floor paving materials market by other categories of materials. The focus of the development of flame retardant wood flooring is to avoid the problem of moisture absorption and mold caused by soaking methods, and to combine with aldehyde-free adhesive technology.
3, the application of new finishing technology increased
In addition to conventional finishing technology, resin film finishing such as polypropylene (PP) decorative film, UV digital printing finish and other new wood finishing technology brings more possibilities to consumers. The most significant advantage of PP decorative film is environmental protection, does not contain volatile harmful substances, and has high water resistance, high pollution resistance and other characteristics, mainly used for the veneer of plywood substrate. UV digital printing technology is the integration of digital inkjet technology, direct printing technology and ultraviolet curing technology, which solves the problems of low grade and large color difference on the surface of the floor blank, and can customize the pattern to meet the aesthetic needs of consumers, and realize the high value-added utilization of low grade materials.
Although China's wood flooring industry is facing the lack of high-quality wood resources, innovation capacity to be strengthened, market growth slowed down and other problems, but wood flooring enterprises as long as they follow the national policy guidance, increase technological innovation, will be able to achieve long-term healthy development
