Coatings industry shipments

Products of the Coatings Industry and Shipments Trade Sales (TS)... 

The types of products produced by the U.S. coatings industry are shown in Table I. Sales of the Industry, distributed by shipments in the three general categories shown, are reported by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, in their monthly "Current Industrial Reports" M28F. Table II is a summary of these reports for the period 1977-82, with projections to 1987. Figure 1 displays these data in graphical form. Shipments for 1987 are estimated in terms of constant 1982 dollars, since exact inflation factors cannot be realistically predicted. 

The paint and coatings industry used to be the second largest consumer of zinc oxide. But shipments declined as the industry switched from linseed oil exterior house paints to latex paints. Since 1950, however, that situation has been changing, and more zinc oxide-containing latex paints are available. 

Coatings are ubiquitous in an industrialized society. U.S. shipments of coatings in 1990 were about 3.8 x 10 m having a value of 11.6 biUion (1). 

Table V distributes U.S. shipments of industrial finishes into eight end-use areas for 1980-82, with projections to 1987. Declines in gallonage are indicated in markets for metal, wood, and transportation finishes. However, some of this is due to the projected greater use of high-solids (HS) finishes overall, consumption of IF by dry gallon is expected to be about the same from 1982 to 1987, since the average nonvolatile content by volume is expected to increase from 40% to about 50%. Can coatings will be affected by state returnable-container laws, the upsurge in the use of glass bottles, and the growth of plastic containers for soft drinks.

Table IX. U.S. Shipments of Industrial Finishes by Coatings Materials and Systems... 

Figure 3. U.S. shipments of industrial finishes by coating material and system ...

Corrosion prevention is another area where accurate published data were unavailable. In 1958 and 1963, the share of this component in the total electrochemical industry was approximately 3 %. Our estimate of the value of shipments of corrosion prevention products, which function electrochemically, was 147.7 MM in 1958 and 192.9 MM in 1963. The corrosion prevention products which were considered in this study were zinc coatings and cathodic protection systems. The estimates of the 1958 and 1963 shipments of zinc coatings were made by a representative of a leading firm in the zinc coating market. This estimate for 1958 was 3.0 MM and for 1963 8.0 MM. These figures only include the cost of the materials applied. The cost of application, which may equal many times the cost of materials, is excluded. The value added by zinc coatings was obtained from the value added-shipments ratio of the appropriate SIC category in the Census of Manufactures. 

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