With the next few years and even decades in our country to speed up the construction of road traffic, urbanization and the urbanization strategy of gradual implementation of the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing, China to further expand the degree of openness, the tourism industry "cake" growing in volume as well as the people's colorful life, the pursuit of fashion, reflective materials in China and the world market is very optimistic about the prospects for development.
Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said experts, reflective materials including tape, reflective inks, anti-cursor line paint, reflective cloth, reflective leather, reflective ribbon, reflective safety, such as silk fabrics. Reflective material is able to reflective, mainly due to the vast majority of reflective material contain a high refractive index glass beads, it is because its existence will be the way people ray reflection back to the original source, the formation of retro-reflective phenomenon.
According to glass beads in the reflective material in a different location, reflective materials can be divided into exposed type, flat-topped type two. Exposed type is the glass beads at the most reflective material surface, beads direct contact with air. Flat Top is the glass beads embedded in a transparent resin, the resin in contact with air, such material weathering, and can have a light reflective surface is not easy adhesion of dust, rain will not be affected, but the complex structure of the technical requirements for equipment high, the main products are various kinds of reflective film, the highway use reflective material that fall into this category.
At present, the application of reflective material mainly concentrated in two market segments, one program-specific market, and the other is the civilian market. Plan has formed a dedicated market is a large-scale, civilian market has great potential for the world pioneers of reflective material, such as the U.S. company 3M reflective material industry giant promising.
The so-called program-specific markets, generally refers to instruction in accordance with national laws and regulations, must use a reflective material, such as public security, transportation, sanitation department staff uniforms, road signs, labels, marking, mines, railways and other field staff clothing , harness, etc..
Reflective coatings, including road signs with reflective paint, reflective paint reunification. A symbol of traditional materials (hot-melt paint, cold spray paint) needs not only to allocate a large number of manual work, and prone to掉漆phenomenon, does not have the reflective properties, similar to the ground in the foggy rain, strong light irradiation to be barely discernible, and the return reflective coating refers to the surface of spray paint in the general follow-layer glass beads, which use not only to overcome the above-mentioned shortcomings, but with the protection of drivers drive safely.
China's expressway in 1998 reached 8733 kilometers, the main trunk or the National Road for 140,522 kilometers, 20 million motor vehicles per annum for 8000 tons reflective coatings, reflective ink for 2000 tons, total output value reached 200 million yuan. At the same time, from the Department of Safety statistics show that the major countries in the world in 1998 the number of deaths due to traffic accidents 601,471 people, only 78,067 people in China alone, the largest in the world. According to comprehensive analysis, the major cities of the country was significantly higher than during the day and night traffic accident in the evening peak concentration of 8 to 10 o'clock this time, one of the reasons is that the road visibility is poor. The emergence of reflective material smoothly resolved to "see" and "see" the night-time traffic problems.
Experts pointed out that the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing, for Beijing and major cities and tourist city center is a showcase to attract foreign tourists and the best chance of their own image. Beacon and set up a good sign, novel aesthetic street signs, tourist attractions fresh signs, bright traffic signs, as well as a good marker station is one of the most effective way, which not only makes every corner of the city all include the concept of security alerts, but also the driver in the numerous traffic environment with the correct guidance, and to effectively showcase city image and urban management capacity to produce good social benefits. And this demand will inevitably drive the development of the market-reflective material, has become a new economic growth points. Beijing street name plates are updated only as an example, the implementation of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Traffic Management Bureau of street name plates with the transformation project, due to domestic quality, technical defects in the project by the 3M company, a few million dollars alone was not hard to imagine the future, reflective paint and reflective materials market prospects.
In addition, reflective safety fabric can make a sanitation workers and traffic police of the strap clothing, to enhance the safety of employees. It is estimated that in Beijing only if every staff clothing retrofitting reflective fabric of 0.02 square meters, the annual consumption in more than 10,000 square meters.
The so-called civil markets, generally refers to light industry, mine, railway, students clothing, all types of apparel, clothing and headgear, bags and other fields. With enhanced safety awareness, gradually expand the civilian market, the garment industry alone each year reflective cloth, reflective leather, reflective ribbon total of 15,000,000 square meters, while China's current production capacity of not more than two million square meters, and there are nearly 1 / 3 the volume of exports to other countries and regions, the market has great potential.
It is learned that China's research on the reflective material 70 starts in the early 20th century, "75", "Eighth Five-Year Plan" period, the Security Department, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Railways and other departments concerned have to include the item in the planning, organization research. After nearly 20 years of unremitting efforts, the domestic large-scale production has been able to reflective cloth, reflective leather. As the reflective film production technology is difficult, production equipment or facilities, the quality of domestic products still remain in the low-level stage, unable to meet the high quality of the highway, such as market demand, the annual 3M Company in China to import about 20 million The tape dollars.
At present, countries in the continuous development of safety supplies at the same time, greater emphasis on reflective material comfort and aesthetics. Not only all kinds of substrate materials, but also from a single color development by the silver gray, yellow, green and blue color.
Particularly worth mentioning is that foreign countries have high refractive index glass beads containing the reflective ink can be printed on clothing, and depending on the color of substrates will be reflective ink colors and fabrics to close during the day and ordinary clothing without vary, but when the night light exposure, the patterns appear immediately. Such clothing collection fashion, beauty, security, all in one, the garment industry has become a new army.