The emergence of water-based coatings, represented by water-based paints, is hailed by the industry as the "third paint revolution". Compared with traditional solvent based coatings, water-based coatings have unique advantages, including environmental friendliness, safety, lower cost advantages, and good smoothness.

In terms of environmental friendliness, water-based coatings have a full lifecycle from raw material sources to production and use, which is beneficial for the healthy development of the environment. It not only replaces volatile organic solvents in the production process, but also allows painting tools to be cleaned with water during use, reducing the consumption of cleaning solvents.

In terms of safety, water-based coatings only use a small amount of low toxicity alcohol ether organic solvents, reducing the volatilization of organic solvents and greatly improving the workplace environment, which is beneficial to the physical health of workers. The general organic solvents used in water-based coatings range from 10% to 15%, while current cathodic electrophoretic coatings have decreased to below 1.2%, significantly reducing pollution and saving resources.

According to the application market, water-based coatings can be divided into four categories: water-based coatings for construction, water-based materials for material protection, water-based coatings for automotive painting, and special functional water-based coatings, with a wide range of applications.