Specialist and Functional Architectural Coatings Market 2008—2018 for Europe and the Middle East.

The architectural coatings market in Europe and the Middle East is estimated to have a value of €15 billion of which the Specialist and Functional segment is worth approximately €5.5 billion. For the purposes of this study, the functional market is defined as coatings that are applied by professionals including the specialized interior and exterior coatings, flooring and roofing where the coatings are selected on the basis of performance.

The Specialist and Functional Architectural Coatings Market study, on the European and Middle Eastern Markets, will provide a unique source of data and insights on this specialist sector. The study will bring you the benefit of this vital information base when formulating your global strategies – from technology to marketing. It will enable you to identify both the threats from competing technologies and future opportunities. Thus, the report will represent a reference guide for your long term strategic planning and provide a basis for more detailed segmental analysis.

Systems with additional functional purposes to the expected aesthetic and protective properties of coatings will be described in the study. The scope will include both residential and non residential markets. The non residential sectors include Industrial, Commercial, Institutional, and Recreational Buildings. The study will provide a detailed analysis of the ETICS (Exterior Thermal Insulation Composite Systems), industrial flooring and roofing. It will include an overview of the European and Middle Eastern decorative coatings and by sector i.e. interior wall, exterior masonry and interior and exterior wood coatings describing how the technology is changing in response to environmental legislation.

Scope:

the EU-27 countries, Switzerland, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the Middle East with a specific focus on the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Key Features of this report:

• The report will give an overview on the global decorative and architectural coatings market with some insight on the current global economic circumstances and its effect on this industry.
• The study will discuss the effects of energy conservation legislation within the European Union on coatings developments and the impact of the Buildings Products Directive on the harmonization of European technical standards. The likely impact of the 2010 introduction of Phase 2 of the Paint Products Directive will also be assessed
• The resin technologies and their markets analysed will include those based on acrylic, epoxy, modified alkyds, polyurethane and silicone resins as well as newer technologies such as polyaspartic and polyurea.
• Functional additives & pigments will include biocides, dispersants, nanomaterials, thickeners and titanium dioxide
• Climate has a major influence on coatings technology selection so the key criteria will be described
• The size of regional markets, growth and future outlook will be included in the study as well as building methods and architectural trends. The report describes the regional sales channels, the major market leaders for coatings and raw materials.
• The coating systems in the report will be categorised, according to application i.e. exterior, interior, flooring and roofing.
• The specialist end use markets to be analysed will include, food and drink processing plants, automotive assembly and component manufacture, car parks and regulated markets such as pharmaceutical production and hospitals together with liquid membrane roofing systems

The key functional properties described will include:

• Biocides for hygienic coatings and for the protection of building exteriors
• Chemical and mechanical resistance
• Energy management including infra red reflective pigment technology
• Exterior coatings technical developments with a focus on ETICS
• Fire resistant and fire retardant interior coatings
• Photocatalytic pigments based on nano technology

The study will bear all the hallmarks of a typical Irfab study: detailed explanations, intelligent graphical illustrations, and tables.

The Team

PRA’s Irfab team comprises coatings professionals from the resins, additives, pigments, paint and coatings industries with specific expertise in the architectural coatings field. In conducting its work the team has the access to our international network of consultants, the comprehensive database of coatings markets around the world and our exhaustive library of product literature and company information.

The highly regarded Irfab reports have been produced for over 30 years, specialising in market assessment and long-term technology forecasting in the paint, coatings and related raw materials markets.