At present, there is almost no specific department of hot melt adhesive production enterprise product quality supervision, there is no complete national or industry standards of quality, not only the users lack of evaluation of hot melt adhesive product performance basis, is not conducive to the technology and management level of enterprises to improve the production of hot melt adhesive. The relevant departments of the State shall set up the testing standards related to hot-melt adhesive as soon as possible, and establish or entrust a professional inspection institution to supervise the quality of hot-melt adhesive products.
The domestic hot melt adhesive enterprises are too many and the scale is too small. The annual output of hot-melt adhesives in North America is more than ten times in China, and the number of manufacturers is only 1 / 10 in China. In more than 200 domestic hot melt adhesives production enterprises, more than half of the annual sales of 500t are less than half, and there is almost no scale benefit. At the same time, the utilization ratio of the total production capacity of hot melt adhesive enterprises is only about 50%, and the production capacity is serious surplus, which leads to the fierce market competition. In 2006, the price war as an example, it is at the beginning of the oil price soaring costs caused by hot melt collagen material in the case of rising, the first half of the price war is to make the industry average price fell by 10%, while the cost has risen 5%, the industry average gross profit by about 30% at the beginning at the same time, down to 15%, the average payment period, the industry has also been stretched to 3 months. Although the competition will be the survival of the fittest, but this process will make the whole industry vitality, because of the low level of the price war is not conducive to technological innovation, reduce the cost and improve the quality of management and work. Price war is indeed a powerful competitive weapon, but enterprises should spend more resources to improve technology, management and services, and ultimately establish a firm foothold and establish brand in the market.
Shortage of talents
Because of the lack of talent in hot melt adhesive industry, there are few products in the real sense of domestic enterprises. The development of the industry takes the product as the leader, and the talent is the key. Large hot melt adhesive enterprises should have their own development team and development facilities.
Homemade of raw materials
At present, only a small amount of raw materials such as rosin resin are developed for hot melt adhesive. SBS and paraffin oil and other materials should be improved only according to the standards of similar products abroad and according to the requirements of hot melt adhesive industry, so that they can expand to the application of domestic hot-melt adhesive products, especially high-end products. SIS and EVA if the long-term dependence on imports, is not only the foreign exchange losses, the capital turnover and delivery time of hot melt adhesive manufacturers affected, can accelerate the establishment of twelve (eleven) in vivo, amine production factory, manufacturing high-grade PA hot melt lining rubber, meet the requirements of the clothing export. The domestic manufacturers of raw materials should recognize the development potential of hot melt adhesive industry and join the hot melt adhesive industry as soon as possible.
The development of new products should be accelerated
In addition to the more common EVA, TPR hot melt adhesive, enterprises should focus on the research and development of the West has a large number of applications and the potential application of some high-tech hot melt adhesive products, including: moisture reactive hot-melt adhesive, water dispersion type hot melt adhesive, hot melt lining rubber and high grade PA high strength HMPSA etc..