Updated: 2013-08-23 17:02 Source: PUWORLD share:
Engineering adhesive is a sort of product with high intensity and high performance, and it is also

called as structural adhesive or half structural adhesive. From 2007 to 2012, Chinas output of

engineering adhesives kept a growth rate of 15.3% and in 2012 it rose to 427,700 tons. At present,

engineering adhesive mainly finds application in such areas as construction, wind power generation

& photovoltaic, and automobile in China, and the consumption in these three fields accounts for at

least 50%.
Engineering adhesives divide into six major categories, i.e., silicone adhesive, epoxy resin

adhesive, polyurethane adhesive, cyanoacrylate adhesive, modified acrylic adhesive and anaerobic

adhesive; wherein, silicone adhesive is the kind with the largest output, making up around 40% of

total output in 2012; followed by epoxy resin adhesive and polyurethane adhesive with their output

occupying 30% and 20% or so respectively. In point of development prospects, silicone adhesive and

polyurethane adhesive are developing fairly fast and expected to maintain a growth rate between

15%-20% in the upcoming several years, and the proportion of total output of the two will see a

rising trend.
Chinese engineering adhesive industry mainly depended on introduction of overseas technologies in

its initial development stage. For instance, the worlds adhesive giants like Fuller, Henkel,

Momentive, 3M and Sika all have made investments and established their plants in China, and they

hold the majority of engineering adhesive market shares in China by dint of technology superiority

and complete product mix. Still, those multnational corporations are expanding their investment in

China so as to sweep more market shares. For example, Henkel is constructing a new adhesive factory

in Shanghai, China, with the designed capacity of 428,000 tons/a, and the factory will become the

largest adhesive manufacturing plant of Henkel in the world once it puts into production.
In the recent years, the engineering adhesive industry of China develops quite rapidly. There were

close to 300 manufacturers of engineering adhesive in China in 2012. Some enterprises can compete

with the worlds renown adhesive companies in some market segments and realize import substitution.

For instance, the players like Hubei Huitian Adhesive Enterprise Co., Ltd, Chengdu Guibao Science &

Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing Tonsan, and Guangdong Xinzhan have held handsome market shares in the

silicone adhesive market, while Shanghai Kangda New Materials Co., Ltd and Beijing Comens New

Materials Co., Ltd boasts strong competitiveness respectively in the markets of epoxy adhesive and

polyurethane adhesive.