SCREEDS, RESINS & COATINGS
FOCUS ON: Construction chemicals
As part of our focus on Screeds, Resins & Coatings this month, AMA Research provide us with some fascinating facts and figures in the construction chemicals market, including the erratic demand for protective coatings and what percentage of floorcoverings are resin flooring systems.
Market
Performance AMA estimates the Construction Chemicals market to have been worth around £420million msp in 2011. At an overall level, there appears not to have been the marked troughs and peaks associated with many individual construction products or material sectors due to the very broad range of products and applications and the lack of dependence on new build activity.
The largest individual product group is adhesives, covering trade, DIY and structural applications with the key applications being
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structural construction and tiling (floor and wall).
The market for specialist sealants is estimated at around £40-50million msp. The market for trade and DIY sealants is estimated at around £30-40million msp in 2011 with a highly fragmented supply chain, reflecting substantial own labelling and own branding.
The market for all fillers was estimated at around £40-45million msp in 2011, though the performance of this sector has been volatile. Decorative fillers account for the majority of the market, followed by wood fillers and expanding foam.
The market for admixtures fell from around £80million in 2008 to some £57million in 2011. The main area underpinning growth going forward is that of water reducing admixtures – plasticisers and superplasticisers. Driving this is the pressing need to reduce water usage, the concrete manufacturing industry being one of the UK’s largest users.
The short term trend in demand for protective coatings has been relatively erratic, although there has not been an underlying downturn in the market as there has been in other sectors of the building chemicals markets. This
is due to the fact that buildings require regular remedial re-coating over their life-spans.
It is estimated that of total floorcoverings sector, resin flooring systems typically account for around 2% of area laid down each year, equivalent to approximately 7 million m². In recent years there has been a diversification away from the industrial/warehousing market into education, food and retail, and this has resulted in slightly stronger sales growth for some suppliers, despite the difficult trading conditions in the construction industry as a whole.
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