Sherwin-Williams is one of the world's first professional coatings companies, with major coatings for architectural, general industrial and automotive coatings, and has surpassed PPG and AkzoNobel to become the world's largest coatings company after completing the acquisition of Valspar in 2017. Sherwin-Williams is the first paint manufacturer in the United States to be registered and certified by the international organization ISO, and it is also the largest paint brand in the United States with the most comprehensive product range.
 
In the field of architectural coatings, Sherwin-Williams' market share ranks first in the world, untouched, and in JD Power's market survey, Sherwin-Williams ranks the highest in customer satisfaction with exterior wall coatings. According to Statistic's survey data, in 2015, the Sherwin-Williams brand alone had a market share of 39.7% in the North American market, far ahead of all competitors, and if you add Valspar's share, it has accounted for half of the U.S. architectural coatings market.
 
Sherwin-Williams entered the Chinese market in 2000 and in 2017 it has ranked second in the Chinese coatings market in terms of output, and has several factories in China, mainly focusing on heavy anti-corrosion and marine coatings, industrial coatings and automotive coatings and household paints. Because of its late entry into the Chinese market and less advertising, Sherwin-Williams' civil paint is not well-known in China, and there is no official flagship store, mainly relying on the sales of home furnishing agents for many years, and its sales have also ranked fifth in China.
 
Due to the different usage habits at home and abroad, exterior wall coatings are not valued by Chinese consumers, and even the situation of mixed use of interior and exterior wall coatings occurs, so Sherwin-Williams does not have many exterior wall coatings in China, all of which are imported from the United States, and the price is 2-3 times that of China's local brands, which are mainly A-100, Xuanli elastic exterior wall coatings and PVA interior/exterior wall general coatings, and the primer is only one Lesheng XP elastic exterior wall coating.
 
Lexion XP elastic exterior wall paint is a closed primer, through the use of high elasticity pure acrylic emulsion, giving the paint film excellent room temperature and low temperature elasticity, can effectively compensate for the cracks of the wall, while enhancing the adhesion of the topcoat, this primer has excellent performance in mildew and moisture resistance, more suitable for rainy areas in the south.
 
Usually the primer needs to be matched with the topcoat to achieve the effect of decorating and protecting the wall. A-100 exterior wall paint is the representative of Sherwin-Williams in the Chinese market exterior wall paint, as a pure acrylic water-based paint, its hiding power has reached the highest requirements of the national standard for topcoat, the air permeability has passed the American ASTM D1653 test, and the weather resistance is also extremely excellent, even under the condition of 3 °C construction can be easier to form a film, making 5 °C construction conditions are difficult to form a complete paint film of similar products.
 
As an exterior wall coating, A-100 has even passed the environmental protection requirements of interior wall coatings, and the test results show that its volatile organic compounds and heavy metal content are lower than the standards of interior wall coatings, which can be more reassuring when used, but because the scrub resistance of exterior wall coatings is much worse than that of interior wall coatings, it is not recommended to use them on interior walls. In terms of packaging, the A-100 single barrel is 5 gallons (18.9 liters), the single-pass brushable wall is 100 square meters, and the price is 1580 yuan, which is significantly higher than that of similar products.
 
Consumers who are more sensitive to price can choose the cheaper Xuanli elastic exterior wall paint, this topcoat product uses a highly elastic acrylic emulsion, which performs better under low temperature conditions, and has a better effect of making up for wall cracks, but because the emulsion content is not high enough, the paint film is slightly thinner when brushed out, and the durability is slightly worse than that of the pure acrylic emulsion Lesheng XP, but the same 5 gallon specifications with a price of 1000 yuan are very competitive.