Wanhua Highlights New Technologies at ECS 2025
03.25.25
Will showcase several high-performance isocyanate curing agents that meet market demands for environmental protection and efficiency.
Coatings World spoke with Carl Hua, Ph.D., Member of the Board, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Wanhua Chemical Group. Co., Ltd., about the 2025 European Coatings Show.
CW: What value does the European Coatings Show offer Wanhua?
Carl Hua: ECS is a premier event in the coatings industry attracting thousands of visitors from around the world. Wanhua Chemical can showcase our latest innovations in coatings and hope to leverage this platform seeking more opportunities and enhancing brand visibility.
CW: What products and/or technologies are you highlighting at the show?
Carl Hua:
• Raw Materials
There are several high-performance isocyanate curing agents that meet market demands for environmental protection and efficiency. The low-viscosity products—WANNATE® HT-300 plus, WANNATE® HT-3100 plus, and WANNATE® HB-200—reduce VOC emissions while significantly improving application efficiency. The fast-drying type—WANNATE® IT-170B/S—features excellent chemical resistance and fast-drying properties, making it suitable for automotive, refinish, and industrial coatings. It helps customers shorten drying times and reduce energy consumption. The blocked type—WANNATE® HTBL/ITBL—offers outstanding weather and chemical resistance, making it ideal for coil coatings and metal baking paints. Especially, the ITBL product is FDA-certified for use in food-contact applications.
• Packaging
Wanhua Chemical launches innovative water-based ink resin products for various printing applications, including cardboard, paper, and film. The Wantipro® 0831 product provides high opacity, excellent color performance, fast drying, and long-term storage stability, ensuring efficient large-scale production and print quality. The company also offers diverse solutions for paper-based and film-based inks, as well as adhesion-promoting primers for films, featuring high color development and excellent adhesion.
• Home and Building
From inside to outside doors, We have the ability to support in different senarios. The water-based 2K solution for general furniture offers superior appearance, high hardness, chemical resistance, wear resistance, and good application properties, enhancing the user experience for wooden furniture. For outdoor wood, the high-gloss, high-transparency Lacper® 4572 provides excellent water, weather, and anti-blocking resistance. Inaddition, we also introduce high-performance UV resins for PVC flooring, offering enhanced wear and stain resistance.
CW: What do you think are the most important issues impacting your customers and how do you best meet their needs?
Carl Hua: With more and more regulations and demands of sustainable development, Wanhua Chemical is striving to support customers and the entire industry chain in reducing carbon emissions. We have diverse bio-based materials in coatings. For instance, the biobased PDI, derived from biomass lysine, has a biobased carbon content of over 71%, reducing CO₂emissions by 20% compared to traditional isocyanates while maintaining excellent yellowing resistance and flexibility. The high-biobased content wood furniture coating emulsion Lacper® 4605 breaks through the previous 30-40% technical barrier for biobased content, meanwhile, balancing appearance, anti-stacking, and performance characteristics.
CW: What value does the European Coatings Show offer Wanhua?
Carl Hua: ECS is a premier event in the coatings industry attracting thousands of visitors from around the world. Wanhua Chemical can showcase our latest innovations in coatings and hope to leverage this platform seeking more opportunities and enhancing brand visibility.
CW: What products and/or technologies are you highlighting at the show?
Carl Hua:
• Raw Materials
There are several high-performance isocyanate curing agents that meet market demands for environmental protection and efficiency. The low-viscosity products—WANNATE® HT-300 plus, WANNATE® HT-3100 plus, and WANNATE® HB-200—reduce VOC emissions while significantly improving application efficiency. The fast-drying type—WANNATE® IT-170B/S—features excellent chemical resistance and fast-drying properties, making it suitable for automotive, refinish, and industrial coatings. It helps customers shorten drying times and reduce energy consumption. The blocked type—WANNATE® HTBL/ITBL—offers outstanding weather and chemical resistance, making it ideal for coil coatings and metal baking paints. Especially, the ITBL product is FDA-certified for use in food-contact applications.
• Packaging
Wanhua Chemical launches innovative water-based ink resin products for various printing applications, including cardboard, paper, and film. The Wantipro® 0831 product provides high opacity, excellent color performance, fast drying, and long-term storage stability, ensuring efficient large-scale production and print quality. The company also offers diverse solutions for paper-based and film-based inks, as well as adhesion-promoting primers for films, featuring high color development and excellent adhesion.
• Home and Building
From inside to outside doors, We have the ability to support in different senarios. The water-based 2K solution for general furniture offers superior appearance, high hardness, chemical resistance, wear resistance, and good application properties, enhancing the user experience for wooden furniture. For outdoor wood, the high-gloss, high-transparency Lacper® 4572 provides excellent water, weather, and anti-blocking resistance. Inaddition, we also introduce high-performance UV resins for PVC flooring, offering enhanced wear and stain resistance.
CW: What do you think are the most important issues impacting your customers and how do you best meet their needs?
Carl Hua: With more and more regulations and demands of sustainable development, Wanhua Chemical is striving to support customers and the entire industry chain in reducing carbon emissions. We have diverse bio-based materials in coatings. For instance, the biobased PDI, derived from biomass lysine, has a biobased carbon content of over 71%, reducing CO₂emissions by 20% compared to traditional isocyanates while maintaining excellent yellowing resistance and flexibility. The high-biobased content wood furniture coating emulsion Lacper® 4605 breaks through the previous 30-40% technical barrier for biobased content, meanwhile, balancing appearance, anti-stacking, and performance characteristics.