香港の床材事情
The Current Hong Kong Floor Market at a Glance
Overview
香港のマーケットに於ける興趣のひとつに、日本では余り使われていない、廃れてしまったマーケットが未だ存在しているということが挙げられます。その代表が床の工事。日本では床のエポキシ材料が出荷される機会は減ってきているかもしませんが、香港ではオフィス床から始まって、駐車場床、工場、ショッピングモールなどなど、ありとあらゆるところに市場があります。そしてその規模も小さいものから大きなものまで様々。本当に塗料にとっては良いマーケットです。今回はそのほんの一部をご紹介。
This time around, we would like to guide you through a little exploration in the area of floor coating in the Hong Kong market, which has been out of season in Japan for quite some years now. Despite so, several products appear to be the long-lived trend in Hong Kong. Floor coating still holds its popularity amongst office space, car park area, factory, shopping complex, and more! The area size of each project ranges from small to large.
Floor Coating for Parking Lot
先ずはじめはハーバーシティー・ゲートウェイ。駐車場床を12,000㎡ほど、関西ペイントのエポキシで施工しました。この物件では色々な苦労があり、外部のヘビーローディングでは剥離の問題も発生しました。しかしこの逆境を順境にかえるべく奮闘した結果、同じお客様から 同じ施設内の別の物件を特命で受注することが決まりました。
First off, we would like to introduce our floor coating system at Harbour City Gateway in Tsim Sha Tsui, in which our client had chosen our Epoxy products for their car parking area of 12,000 sqm. In fact, we had faced quite a lot of challenges and difficulties on our way to completing this large scale project. For instance, we had some struggles with the case of flaking at an outside area. In the end, we finished what we had started. Convinced by our genuine and responsible action of trouble-shooting, we are grateful that, albeit the problems we encountered here, our client still confirmed to use our coating systems and decided to particularly specify our products again for other areas of their properties.
Floor Coating for Cold Storage Rooms
次にジョッキークラブ。それまで他メーカーを使用して何度も剥離のクレームを起こしていた冷凍倉庫が、関西ペイントの塗料を使用することで施工後数年しても全く健全な状態を保ち、とても感謝されています。
Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) would be up next. Their cold storage room had had a recurring phenomenon of cracking and peeling off from time to time on its floor coating. Having used several products provided by other companies but of no avail, HKJC asked and gave us a try. We certainly did not disappoint our client, for we were able to achieve fantastic results. With over two years passed, the application area still retain its good and healthy condition. Setting this precedent has assuredly convinced our client to continuously choose our products for their impending projects.
ジョッキークラブやハーバーシティー、それに後ほどご紹介する「香港そごう百貨店」は材料の選定が非常に厳しいことでも有名で、他のメーカーでは太刀打ちできない技術の力を見せつけている形になっています。またオフィスビルにも当社の材料が使用されております。エリアは少ないのですが、メンテが簡便で仕上がり感も良い材料として、塗料の認知度を上げることに成功しています。
Each of our clients, e.g. Harbour City, HKJC, and Hong Kong SOGO, have their own strict criteria for quality assessment, thus it is definitely NOT easy to register. This is the sole proof that the products they use recurrently must be in BEST of the BEST quality.
Our floor coating systems have also been used at offices as well. Regardless of project size, our clients still appreciate how our products could achieve good finishing and allow for easy maintenance. We are contributing to escalate value of paint in these aspects as well. Furthermore, with our sincere and positive attitude, our clients have grown trust and confidence in the brand itself and in us.
Floor Coating for Major Department Store
そして「香港そごう」。特殊な塗料を使用して床の保護強化を行っていますが、その性能に関しましてはお客様からぞっこんに惚れたとのご評価をいただいています。
Up next, we would like to showcase our project in Hong Kong SOGO, as we have been nominated for special protective coating system on their floors, and our client is over head and ears in love with us!
Floor Coating for Factories
最後は工場物件です。実はこの工場は他メーカーで外壁を改修したのですが、その後当社へのご質問を頂戴したことが契機になり、床と内装の一部を当社にて担当させて頂きました。現在ではほかの内装塗装も含めてご相談を頂戴しております。
Last but not least, we would like to briefly mention our floor coating project in the factories. While this factory had repainted their external walls using other brands, they figured they would come to us for a product introduction and finally confirmed to use our products for floor coating and part of the building interior.
Conclusion
この他にも管理会社やデベロッパーから、彼らが所有する物件の床へのご質問も多数頂戴しておりますが、床の塗装は十分な経験としっかりした技術的裏付けがないと火傷をする大変な市場で、我々も毎回毎回、勉強することが多い市場です。
Apart from the above projects, we are still receiving numerous inquiries from developers and management companies for their properties respectively, no matter new or old. Since floor works require deep and comprehensive experience with a technical background to prevent any potential problems, we are still trying our utmost to improve our skills and knowledge day by day.
