In the second half of 2026, the recovery of domestic infrastructure construction, booming home decoration market and upgrading industrial manufacturing have driven the continuous prosperity of the coatings and paints industry with steadily rising production and sales data. According to industrial financial reports, the revenue of the coatings and paints sector achieved steady year-on-year growth in the first half of the year, with continuously expanding export markets. In particular, high-end industrial coatings and environmentally friendly decorative paints have achieved outstanding export growth, driving the overall industry prosperity.

Upgraded market demand structure has become the core highlight of the industry. Driven by environmental protection policies and consumption upgrading, traditional oil-based coatings are gradually exiting the mainstream market, while the market share of green environmental-friendly products such as water-based coatings, powder coatings and high-solid coatings continues to rise. In the home decoration field, high-end environmentally friendly paints with low formaldehyde, low odor and strong weather resistance have become consumers’ first choice. In the industrial field, anti-corrosion coatings, high-temperature resistant coatings and special functional coatings are widely used in new energy equipment, rail transit, engineering machinery and other fields, with explosive demand for high-end special coatings.

Meanwhile, the quality upgrading of upstream organic raw materials, environmentally friendly solvents and functional additives has provided core support for the upgrading of the coatings industry, enabling domestic coating products to continuously surpass imported products in performance and accelerating the process of domestic substitution. Industry institutions predict that the coatings market will maintain steady growth throughout the year. Greenization, functionalization, high-end development and customization will become the long-term development trend of the industry, and special coatings adapted to segmented scenarios will embrace sustained growth opportunities.