Foreign suppliers are feeling the pressure from improved domestic technology in China’s neutral silicone sealant market.
Suppliers, customers and channel players in China’s silicone sealant industry agree that the best products come from foreign brands. They also agree that customers are demanding higher and higher quality sealant products. Unfortunately for foreign suppliers, their technological advantage is diminishing as China’s domestic products continue to improve.
China’s urban landscape has changed beyond all recognition over the last few decades, with tall glass-walled office buildings sprouting up to fill the business districts of the country’s major cities. One of the many effects of this unprecedented construction boom has been the creation of a huge market for silicone sealants, which are used both to seal the gaps between the individual glass units that make up the curtain walls of newly constructed skyscrapers and to attach these glass units to the buildings’ structures.