in recent years, in order to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, and comply with the environmental regulations on carbon emissions, the automobile manufacturing industry more and more use of lightweight materials, so most of the automotive metal components by plastic materials (such as ABS plastic) replaced, and, in order to make plastic parts with a variety of surface properties, should be on the surface of the coating, thereby indirectly promote plastic coatings, especially polyurethane soft feel coating development. Because of the excellent yellowing resistance, scratch resistance, abrasion resistance and resistance to chemicals, soft touch coatings are widely used in automotive interiors, such as handrails, door trim, airbags, steering wheel cover, control panel, etc..

The study pointed out that although the solvent type, high content of VOC two-component coating systems are still in use, but affected by the policy guidance and enhance awareness of the environment, the gradual development of the paint industry is low or zero VOC VOC coatings.

Among them, research and development of waterborne polyurethane soft feel coating has been continuously strengthened, the next few years the growth rate was significantly accelerated, in order to comply with its downstream applications (such as the car industry, wood industry, furniture industry, electronics manufacturing and other requirements). It is worth noting that in the Asia Pacific region, the solvent based polyurethane soft feel coating still has a large market share.