During the three days event, more than 30 seminars were hosted with speakers coming from architecture firms, interior designers, major brands, manufacturers, consultants, academics and relevant industry associations.

Major topics were being carried out in topics of Cross-border communication across industry supply chain, interior design applications, material engineering, building industrialization and smart home living.

Its worth noting that during the keynote speeches, there has been constant mentioning about multi-dimensional /

multi-functional spatial design, where consumers are exploring interior designs that offers multifunctional purpose in a highly urbanized setting.

Quality living with green decorative products are also a major topic that has been brought up where the industry are initiating for low carbon emission and carbon neutrality in production of various of building materials.

Lastly, as consumers behaviors are in constant changing, there is a need for more convenient and rapid remodeling in interiors.

Hybrid Layer Bonding Issue in PP Print Films

As there are now many suppliers working in the development for PP-based floorings, a common challenges the industry has faced is the bonding and adhesive issue between layers in PP flooring.

In conventional PVC flooring, the PVC material can be easily bonded together with oil-based ink. However, the covalent bond between PP polymer with water-based PU ink is different making the bonding ineffective during the heat curing process. In short, PP film does not bond well with PU ink in between.

A common solution to this (which we have observed from on market products) is to apply glue like (PUR) coatings which can effectively bond the layers together. However, this practice in our opinion is not the ideal solution as it adds cost and has other potential concern in applied adhesives.

Our solution focus in developing a modified PP print film that can bond together in low temperature processing and of cause without the need for PUR coating.