In 2010, hot melt adhesive, as an important product in the adhesive industry, showed a good growth momentum. In 2009, the global market sales of hot melt adhesives totaled about 3.3 billion US dollars, and in 2010, the market sales of hot melt adhesives reached 3.5 billion US dollars. In the international market, the global market demand of hot melt adhesives will increase steadily with the development of the rubber industry. Among them, the demand of developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States will grow slowly, while the demand of Asia, especially China, will maintain a fast growth rate.
      Due to the outstanding advantages of hot melt adhesive such as environmental protection, rapid curing and suitable for automatic production, hot melt adhesive has been one of the adhesive varieties with rapid growth in the past decade. By 2005, hot melt adhesive has become the third largest variety in the world after polymer lotion and traditional solvent based adhesive. In developed regions, hot-melt adhesives have accounted for a high proportion of all adhesive products, including nearly 20% in North America; However, the proportion is relatively low in underdeveloped areas, due to insufficient attention to environmental protection, which leads to the widespread use of solvent-based adhesive products, and the low level of industrial automation limits the development scale of the hot melt adhesive market.
      Although there are differences in different regions of the world, the consumption of paper products is far from the top, accounting for 55% of the global total consumption of hot melt adhesive. The specific applications of these paper products include: carton sealing, disposable sanitary products, book binding, paper labels and adhesive tapes.
      Hot melt adhesive for furniture is a kind of adhesive specially used for pasting man-made panels. It is an environmentally friendly, solvent-free thermoplastic adhesive. When the hot melt adhesive is heated to a certain temperature, that is, it changes from solid state to molten state. When it is coated on the surface of the wood-based panel substrate or edge sealing material, it cools to solid state, and the material is bonded with the substrate. From the late 1970s, hot melt adhesive began to enter the wood industry, used for edge sealing, plywood core, panel splicing, furniture tenoning, etc. The early hot melt adhesive equipment mainly depended on the equipment of the United States, West Germany, Italy and other countries. With the increasingly mature and stable hot melt adhesive equipment in China, the selection and use of hot melt adhesive equipment suitable for the specific situation of each furniture factory can not only improve the quality and grade of furniture, In addition, it can improve production efficiency, reduce the difficulty of panel repair, and reduce the labor intensity of workers.