The confusion over the names of paint and paint began after the 1980s. With the rapid development of economic construction and the rapid rise of the construction industry, the paint industry is no longer a monopoly in the past chemical system. Domestic construction system a large number of new similar production plants commonly used "paint" as the enterprise name. With a large number of architectural coatings products to market, not only the word "paint" out of the sacred palace of academic, but also because of architectural coatings are mainly water-based products, coatings and so the concept of social distortions, one-sided think paint is water-based, mistaken for coating and paint are two different materials, belong to two different industries. In the industry has always believed that paint and paint are just two different terms for the same material.

    In our country generally believed that paint is waterborne paint, and is low grade, paint is high grade. This is a false concept. Paint contains paint, which can be divided into water-based paint and solvent (oil) paint. With the development of petrochemical industry, chemical products emerge in endlessly, most of the modern coating has moved away from the traditional oil paint production, a growing number of coatings products through chemical synthesis preparation of more excellent performance; Use is also increasing. It is more accurate to refer to paint.

    Made from vegetable oil and natural resins, it is often called paint. With the development of industry, the variety of coatings is increasing day by day, the quality and performance are improving, and many new coatings no longer contain oil. So the word paint is not quite accurate enough. Therefore, the various materials used for coating surface are collectively called coatings, and paint is only one of the coatings. With the development of science and the wide application of various polymer synthetic resins, the coating products have undergone fundamental changes, so the accurate name should be "organic coatings".

    As a matter of fact, paint is a kind of coating, only the raw materials of paint use tung oil and raw lacquer, while coating products come from coating products. And, because modern paint USES tung oil and raw lacquer almost no longer as raw material, call paint again, not appropriate.

    The coating of water paint brand can be divided into three categories: oil paint, water paint, powder paint; Paints (mobile liquid coatings) include oil paints and water-based paints.

    1. According to different parts, paint is mainly divided into wall paint, wood paint and metal paint. Wall paint includes exterior wall paint, interior wall paint and top coat paint, it is mainly latex paint and other types of wood paint mainly nitrocellulose paint, polyurethane paint and so on, metal paint is mainly magnetic paint.

    2. Depending on the state, the paint can be divided into water-based paint and oil paint. Emulsioni paint is the main waterborne paint, while nitrocellulose paint, polyurethane paint and so on are mostly oil paint.