In today's coatings industry, environmental protection is one of the unavoidable themes. In this context, the rapid growth of environmentally friendly coatings has gradually become the mainstream of the development of the field of coatings. Water-based coatings is a field of rapid development of environmentally friendly coatings. At present, many mature products and technologies have been introduced to the market. Water-based coatings are a kind of coatings with water as solvent or dispersion medium, which have the characteristics of green and environmental protection. It has been used on a large scale in the field of architectural coatings. As countries around the world pay more and more attention to environmental protection, the use of water-based coatings instead has become an inevitable trend.

Since the emergence of water-based coatings in the 1960 s, after years of development, it has formed a large system of multi-variety, multi-function, multi-purpose and multi-specification. Although China's water-based coatings industry started late, but with the rapid economic development, water-based coatings have made great progress, in the furniture office coatings wood coatings water-based trend is obvious. Although waterborne coatings have achieved great results, there is still a long way to go to completely replace other types of coatings.

At the same time, the development of the coating industry can not be separated from the standard specification and guidance. A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the Announcement of the List of Group Standard Application Demonstration Projects in 2018" (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Branch Letter [2018] No. 469), and the "Green Design Product Evaluation Technical Specification Waterborne" led by the China Coatings Industry Association "Architectural Coatings" was included in the 2018 "Group Standard Application Demonstration Project". As the technical specification for green design product evaluation, water-based architectural coatings are of great significance to standardize and guide the development of the coating industry. It is conducive to boosting the expansion of the social influence of the green product policy, enhancing the social effect, and can further promote brand building, guide consumption, and meet the requirements of industry structural transformation and supply-side structural reform. A series of paint industry standards have been implemented one after another to promote the transformation process of the paint industry. It is believed that as the government pays more and more attention to environmental protection and the standards of the coating industry are becoming more and more perfect, coating enterprises will also speed up the pace of transformation and upgrading and contribute to the cause of environmental protection.

In the future, in addition to the development of standards and research work, we should also actively develop green, sustainable and developing coating technology, and continue to broaden the application field of water-based coatings, so as to further release the market potential of water-based coatings. At the same time, on the basis of the existing strengths and weaknesses, the development of high-performance, high-function water-based coatings. In general, water-based coatings are one of the important development trends in the field of coatings industry, and the prospects are very broad. But to play a greater role, but also need to work on the performance, from the root of the alternative to non-environmentally friendly coatings.