The American Architectural Coatings Industry Environmental Transformation (1967-1998)

Architectural coatings industry has a special importance in the American social and economic development. Environmental transformation of the industry also has a certain representation. The American architectural coatings industry is not only closely related to its overall economic development situation; and also related to the American urbanization process. The architectural coatings’s pollution issues are diverse and complex, and in the extensive and substantial use in the United States; Therefore, the United States environmental regulation focus on the building norms of the architectural coatings industry. Because the United States is the world’s largest production and sales of architectural coatings, so the environmental standards of the architectural coatings industry have an important impact on the global development of the architectural coatings industry. As a result, take the American architectural coatings industry as analysis object can dynamically reflect the reality of American environmental pollution and changes in the environment. It is also can see the strengthen process of the relevant laws and regulations on the path. From the transformation of the architectural coatings industry, from 1967 to 1998, its environmental transformation process can be divided into: 1967 -1980, 1980 -1990 and 1990 -1998 in three stages. Various stages by different environmental trends, the impact of economic and policy background, the number of relevant laws and regulations and the emergence of differences in enforcement, and therefore affected the architectural coatings enterprises actives. Meanwhile, companies and authorities in the process of transformation have different status and role. It’s making the conflict, between government and enterprises, intensified. In addition, as unfair to place the relevant environmental, architectural coatings industry, the relative size of the enterprises have always been unfair in a competitive environment and regulations. Overall, the American architectural coatings industry environmental transformation was in the twists and turns in advance, although the lacks of transformation; but the achievements are outstanding.