Roof Coatings

JCT Coatingstech Magazine

August 2010

Volume 7, No. 8

Page 44-47

Excerpts from… “Roof Coatings: Cool Technology is a Hot Topic”

By Cynthia Challener, JCT Coatingstech Contributing Writer

The current market size for all polymer-based roof coatings is estimated by The ChemQuest Group, Inc. to be $500-$550 million. Of that amount, white cool roof coatings account for about $170 million, with demand increasing at about 4% annually. The majority of these coatings are acrylic formulations ($130 million, growing at ~5%/yr), with urethanes (4.5%/yr growth), silicones (1.5%/yr growth) and epoxies (1%/yr growth) accounting for the vast majority of the remainder. Sales of fluoropolymers, derivatives of polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF), for re-roofing applications are quite small at about $2 million (1.5%/yr growth). The market for factory applied colored coatings containing infrared (IR) reflective pigments that are used on high sloped roofs is in the range of $100-$150 million, according to ChemQuest.

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