What are latest market trends and challenges for epoxies? The demand for epoxies is globally growing between 3-4% per year. Trends and challenges can be grouped in three categories addressing technical, financial and supply demand issues. On the technical side we see a continuously strong trend toward ecofriendly systems across all fields of application and the different geographies, which includes the trend to high-solid and water-borne systems in the coatings industry. Secondly, offering cost efficient solutions is constantly among the challenges for the industry. Supply demand is the third trend and challenge. The epoxy industry is at a turning point. ...