One of the most successful areas of radiation-curing technology has been wood coatings, specifically the furniture and parquet flooring industries.
Reasons for the success of radiation curing include the outstanding performance of the coatings, very fast curing (within seconds or fractions of seconds), product stability on the application machines, low process costs per square meter of surface, and the very low emissions. These explain why radiation-curable coatings have obtained an important market share alongside other systems like nitrocellulose, two-component polyurethane, acid cure and waterborne coatings.