Top FAQs About UV Resistant Artificial Plants

Can your artificial plants go outside? The answer is yes! In fact, how to make fake plants last outdoors is simple – Protect them from UV rays. You never need to worry about Sunwing. Our UV Resistant Artificial Plants are manufactured botanically accurate to keep the highest level of sun protection and stand the test of time.

Here’re the most frequently asked questions:

⇒ What are UV Resistant Artificial Plants
⇒ What Makes Artificial Plants UV Protected
⇒ Types of Artificial Outdoor Plants
⇒ How Long do Outdoor Artificial Plants Last
⇒ How to Protect Artificial Plants and Trees Outside

What Are UV Resistant Artificial Plants

UV resistance is the ability to resist UV rays or sunlight. If you’re working on outdoor landscaping or construction projects, extreme weather is an uncontrollable factor. Stronger daylight means more UV rays which will decrease the artificial plants’ lifespan. For this reason, it’s worth considering adding UV resistance to your artificial plants.

Benefits Of UV Treated Artificial Plants

• Not easy to fade or crack
• Remain green no matter what season
• Protect plants from dirt and moisture

What Makes Artificial Plants UV Protected

Generally speaking, artificial plants are made of plastic, silk, fabric, metal wires, and natural woods. Unfortunately, these materials themselves are not resistant to UV rays, leading to discoloration, fading, and cracking.

To make our outdoor plants UV protected, we use premium UV stabilizers imported from Germany during the manufacturing process of artificial leaves or foliages.

Types Of Artificial Outdoor Plants

Different types of outdoor plants have different levels of UV protection for artificial plants. Read on to learn more ⇓

#1. UV protection made within the foliage

It is the highest level of sun protection for your fake plants. In this way, UV resistance has been mixed into the materials of the plants, which means the artificial plants are less likely to fade or crack even exposed to quite hot conditions.

#2. UV protection spray for plants

It is the medium level of sun protection. Unlike the technology above, this UV protection spray is applied outside the leaves, not inside the materials.

#3. Non UV treated artificial plants

You’ve been tricked! Don’t trust the suppliers who can’t provide UV test reports of their plants. Such a terrible situation! Your artificial plants last for only 2 to 3 months; after that, you have to expend time and money to find other partners.

How Long Do Outdoor Artificial Plants Last

These days, we get many questions about how long the outdoor artificial plants, trees, and flowers will last. Well, if your artificial plants are made of weather-resistant silk, you can expect a lifetime of two or three months. If your plants are made of synthetic materials like plastic, rayon, or polyester, longevity will depend on whether or not the material has been UV-treated.

How To Protect Artificial Plants And Trees Outside

Remember these easy tips to prevent artificial plants from fading outdoors ⇓

 

Move the plants and trees interiors before incoming heavy rain, extreme winds, or strong heat.

Search for premium UV blocking materials spray or directly purchase UV-resistant artificial plants.

Add a layer of protection to your fake plants, flowers, and trees.

Also, regular cleaning is important for your plants. Use a hairdryer or feather duster to drive away dust.

Conclusion

Clients are often surprised by how durable artificial plants can be, even when placed outdoors. At Sunwing Industries Ltd, you will find UV-resistant artificial plants which will last for at least 3 years exteriors. Whatsmore, we can customize them according to your project needs. Contact us to learn more. Email: sales@sunwinggreen.com | Whatsapp: +86 13951936338

Tips for Newcomers in the Artificial Plant Industry

Plants artificial are not tacky with continuous development, instead there exist more prospects. Do you want to follow the path to success of leaders in the artificial plant industry? Exactly you will make profits of products if you are engaged in this business with effort more or less. Refer to these tips and avoid dropping into the pit.

• Should you be a brand agent or not?
• Discovering capable artificial plant suppliers is better
• Using Sunwing custom artificial plant manufacturing service

Before you start, there are two options that you face – become a brand agent or seek a supplier’s help.

Should you be a brand agent or not?

Even if it’s your first time entering the artificial plant market, you will find branding of some top suppliers has been deeply rooted among the people, which is successful to some extent. But is it certain to reap colossal profits as you become their agent?

Advantages of being an artificial plant brand agent

• No need to use your own fluid capital
• Not necessary to keep a lot of stock
• Relatively low risk
• Some powerful brands can provide enough franchise support, including product development, customer management, etc.

Disadvantages of being a faux plant brand agent

• For some well-known brands, both the agency threshold and the cost are high. Still, the profit margin of commodities is less.
• Whether the general agency or exclusive agency, you cannot enjoy the right to act on behalf of all artificial greenery categories (including hot-sellers), thus losing part of your profits.
• You may suffer a lot upon encountering artificial plant bands that have no stable brand image or rich experience in retail management.
• More importantly, you are losing your once-powerful grip on brand marketing.

If you want to give up this option to be an agent, consider following the success of artificial plant manufacturers.

Discovering capable artificial plant suppliers is better

With so many artificial plants manufacturers popping up, you need to open your eyes wide in case of being cheated. A capable manufacturer or factory should have the following fundamental conditions.

#1. cost and quality control

Sourcing from an artificial plant factory is a robust solution for your business as it takes full responsibility for all products and focuses more on quality. By working with a manufacturer you will pay less to get the same premium artificial plants compared with a branding agency.

#2. excellent production capacity

In addition to product quality, the equipment and technical level of a manufacturing factory is also key to defining it’s professional or not. Here’s a practical suggestion is that you can take a business trip to the factory you want to work with.

#3. domestically reputed for wide varieties

As a faux plant factory with strong capacities, it needs to be equipped with different molds producing a wide range of artificial plants for the sake of diverse needs among nations. What you can do is to find such a supplier as you can procure some of the most popular products catering to the local market.

#4. a certain understanding of the market

Profound insight and timely strategies to respond to the ever-changing artificial plants market are also fundamental to any manufacturer. You can get in touch with a supplier to ask for their thoughts about the latest artificial plant trend in the globe.

#5. no patent infringement

Suppliers in some regions are accustomed to applying for patents on their products in order to increase ancillary value. When you are working with a supplier, please pay attention to whether he has plagiarized or misappropriated the trademarks, brands, etc of other suppliers.

Where to find a reliable and capable artificial plant supplier in the world? Yes of course, mostly in China. So how can you select one in ten thousand?

Using Sunwing custom artificial plant manufacturing service

Up to now, customization has become a wow factor in achieving success in the artificial plant industry.

——Artificial plant design

Concept: The demand for simulated plants is different in different regions and countries, so you have to provide products that meet the needs of your local market. Likewise, Sunwing is committed to offering customizable designs for importers, architects, and property developers, etc.

Method: First is the artificial plant category, Sunwing specialized R&D team has designed many varieties like artificial hedges, plant walls, trees, potted plants, flowers, moss, and so on.

The second is the diversity of a single category including sizes, colors, patterns, etc.

Let’s take Sunwing’s top-seller artificial plant wall panel H021 as an example. Inspired by trendy and favorable green walls in some regions, we come up with the design and manufacture with our own thoughts. This is not only aimed at specific regions but also to open up more markets in the world.

——Manufacturing technology

Over the years, leading suppliers have excavated more functions than the ornamental value of faux plants. With advanced technology, the artificial plant ranges can be UV resistant and fire retardant. On most occasions, artificial living plants are custom-made to achieve functional impacts but some special models come with attributes. Of course, the price of customization is higher than regular items.

Another situation you may get trapped in is whether patented manufacturing technology is the best. Well, actually not because the performance of UV protection and fire safety is no longer something a supplier can be proud of. Registered brands, trademarks, or patents are only used for added value while the performance needs thinking twice. The deciding factor is the fact speaks for itself. Sunwing can provide the standard or super-standard for your business plan. Ask for UV stable/ FR test reports now.

Any questions or ideas, welcome to contact us online or send an email to sales@plantsartificial.com

Fire Retardant Artificial Plants- First Choice “Fire-Safe”

Safety always comes first. Using fire retardant artificial plants is a simple way to reduce risk – while still making sure that the decoration looks great.

In today’s post I’m going to show you:

⇒ What Makes Artificial Plants Fire Retardant
⇒ How are the FR Plants Tested
⇒ Why Fire Retardant Artificial Plants is First Choice
⇒ Sunwing Fire Rated Artificial Plants
⇒ Main Issues You Might Face as Wholesalers

Let’s get started!

What Makes Artificial Plants Fire Retardant

Firstly, here’s a question ⇓

Are Inherently flame resistant plants/trees themselves fireproof?

No. It does not mean your plant/tree is fireproof.

Only the foliage and the stem molding is impregnated with a retardant, which prevents a sticky film from forming on the leaves, and makes sure that the retardant doesn’t wash off or simply dissipate. When it is exposed to fire or high temperature in the air, it is difficult to catch fire and difficult to burn slightly. After the fire source is removed, the combustion and micro-ignition stop immediately.

So, artificial plants made in this way are known as “Inherently Fire Retardant” (IFR).

 

How Are The FR Plants Tested

To make things easy, we invite you to watch this video showing the full extent of Sunwing artificial hedge plant’s fire protection. All our fire retardant plants have to pass the National Fire Prevention Association 701 test.

Here is a summary of the NFPA 701 flame test:

1. The flame must be propane or butane.
2. No wind is allowed; the air must be still.
3. Hold the artificial hedge panel vertically, 1 meter above the floor.
4. Apply the flame to the artificial hedge for 12 seconds, then remove the flame.
5. After the flame is removed the artificial box hedge must stop burning within 2 seconds.
6. While the flame is applied to the artificial boxwood hedge, no burning blobs of plastic can reach the floor.

Instead, with regard to non-ifr artificial hedge plants:

• Flame applied to fabric leaf with steady ignition.
• Flame removed resulting in increased ignition and flame spread.
• Continue burning & self-ignition.

 

Why Fire Retardant Artificial Plants Is First Choice

One word: safety.

Whether you have artificial plants in your landscape project or fake trees in a commercial environment, you don’t want to endanger anyone’s safety.

Safe for homes

Worryingly, some household items aren’t treated to be fire retardant, but anything will burn given sufficient stimulation. So the fire-rated fake plants are the first choice for family safety.

Safe for workplaces

As people pay more and more attention to health and safety, most employers are extremely conscious of reducing risk. The safety of staff and customers should never be threatened. Please ask yourself if you’re actually adding flammable items for your interior design.

Safe for outdoor decorations

The more people are likely to enter a public environment, the more important it is that it’s safe.

Using plants as part of your landscape project is a great idea to add a splash of color or natural greenery. certainly, choosing IFR artificial plants is the next step. Besides, depending on where you’re based, your local regulations may insist upon these IFR plants.

The reasons don’t stop there…

At this point, you should have a stronger awareness to equip fire-retardant plants. Next, we will give you some recommendations.

 

Sunwing Fire Rated Artificial Plants

Whether you are working on Indoor or outdoor landscape improvements like restaurants, hotels, or shopping malls, you need fire retardant certificates or reports to ask for building or installation permits of fire-safe departments. Among them, level B fire retardant test reports for fire-rated artificial plants and hedges are widely accepted by the public.

Unlike those artificial hedges which only have IFR artificial foliage, we are able to provide artificial hedges with level B Inherent flame retardant treated artificial foliage, stems, and branches.

We recently increase our fire-retardant & commercial rated artificial hedges panels varieties, the most wanted styles are listed as follows:

Main Issues You Might Face As Wholesalers

Q: What should I do with the budget?

A: Just remember that artificial plants and flowers never need replacing, so any expense soon pays for itself. Before you buy, consider where the plant or tree is going to be installed, and then think over the size of space you have.

Q: Is a fireproof certificate necessary?

A: Each state and city has different regulations. You should check the building codes with your local fire-safe department. Generally speaking, many states and cities are increasingly requiring public buildings to have ifr artificial plants, and some will ask you to keep a copy of certificates proving that your organization’s foliage is fire retardant. Don’t worry, we will provide you with copies of these certificates.

Q: How many fr artificial plants do I need to cover an area of 600 square building?

A: We can customize the whole process to best suit your needs. Welcome to get minimum order & pricing details from us.

In conclusion, whether you are an interior designer, architect, landscaper, or homeowner looking for fire retardant artificial plants, put safety first without compromising on quality by choosing Sunwing for your next project. Feel free to contact us by email at sales@sunwinggreen.com. We’re here to help you with any related questions or requests.

Global Trend for Artificial Plants Market 2021

2020 is coming to an end, Sunwing has made an analysis of the global artificial plants market during this year. Taking the epidemic into account, almost all walks of life have been affected, so is the faux plants & flowers industry. But the crisis is also an opportunity, overseas suppliers wholesalers, and retailers ought to make full preparations for the approaching 2021.

Artificial Plants Market Segmentation Analysis

In order to have a clear understanding, scholars have divided the fake plant market into the four following aspects.

Geographical regions

As shown in the pic (source: Google Trends) above, there indicate top5 search volume regions of “artificial plants”. Specifically, they are the UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Arab Emirates. In general, almost every continent has a certain interest search (except Antarctica). In addition, the area without blue color is not a little bit of search volume. Although not all countries listed, it can still reflect the global heated topic of artificial greenery. Based on the interesting trend in the past year, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North America are the main areas for development prospects of the simulation plant industry. Coincidentally, many reports point out that global artificial plant supplier giants are distributed in these regions. Therefore, it provides the direction for next-year transformation and upgrading of foreign wholesalers, retailers, and even interior design companies.

Distribution channel

On the whole, they divide the global faux plant market into offline and online distribution channels. Regarding online distribution, it tends to refer to websites like company-owned or e-commerce portal, etc.. While regarding offline channels, it’s often further for supermarkets or specialty stores.

The rapid development of the Internet has attracted a number of companies, some of which can independently produce plants artificial. And meanwhile, some become agents or dealers of physical factories. Without a doubt, this annual data shows this market still concentrates on online distribution, exceeding offline distribution methods. From some arguments, it is because offline stores may also source simulated plants and flowers online.

Material type

Artificial plants, flowers, and trees consist of a variety of materials, such as polyester and so on. However, polyester has become the first choice for manufacturers because it’s available and affordable. The second choice is silk material due to its feeling of real touch and visual reality.

Aside from two preferred material types, some manufacturers also choose cotton, latex, paper, parchment, and rubber. In view of large and bright flower arrangements, satin is a kind of common sediment. Of course, there exist dry materials on the market, such as flowers, berries, feathers, and plant parts.

End-use

In common sense, the faux green plants market includes residential and commercial functional use. To make it specific, residential is usually in the singular form, for example, homes or real estates in residence. In terms of the commercial segment, you can consider offices, hospitals, theme parks, and hotels & restaurants, etc.

From the analysis, the proportion of the household market is larger than that of the commercial market, which gets affected mainly by cost. Because of no maintenance upkeep expenses, it’s the choice for middle-class terminal individuals. In the long term, cultivation of real plants requires more time and effort, and may also require employing professional gardeners. As a result, the cost is naturally high. But for commercial places, those companies can easily afford so as to get real plants for breathing the air.

COVID-19 Impacts on Artificial Flowers Plants Industry

Since the outbreak, the epidemic has undoubtedly had a huge impact on the economy of China and the world. Not only did the revenue of the retail, tourism, and other industries drop sharply, but the manufacturing, real estate, and construction buildings were slow to resume work and production due to restrictions on the flow of people and logistics. Let’s take the retail industry as an example to illustrate the impact of COVID-19 on the artificial plants flowers industry.

• Frustrating short-term revenue and profits

On one hand, the closure of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, specialty stores, and tourism has caused setbacks in scenic consumption. On the other hand, factors of online platforms still show an upside-down situation in which volume increases and profits decline.

• Competitive landscape accelerates differentiation

COVID-19 has triggered a further shift of retail companies to online, and meanwhile strategically shrinks their offline layout. Specifically, large platforms took the opportunity to expand market share and accelerated the acquisition and integration of small chains. The upstream and downstream jointly build a collaborative and symbiotic digital ecosystem and build alliances to fight the epidemic.

• Collaborative integration of supply system

Regarding rising costs, insufficient production and supply, and delays in distribution rework have affected the supply side. In addition, the increase in consumer awareness also promotes the integration, socialization, synergy, and platformization of the supply chain. In this way, the supply chain collaboration system has become the regulator of the retail industry.

• Unmanned retail explores opportunities

Actually, attempts of unmanned pick-up, delivery, and retail stores in the epidemic broke through psychological barriers of delivery and receipt. So as to provide a good service platform for express and takeaway delivery services. Obviously, with large-scale integration of the supply chain, the advantages will result in improvements in storage efficiency and service quality. Besides, the fast-developing digital technologies are actively seeking application scenarios in the development of unmanned retail terminals and back-end operations.

Future Trend for Fake Plants

In regard to this year’s situation, although affected by COVID-19, the market prospect for artificial plants is still bright.

Sunwing as a professional faux plants manufacturer has its own technique, specialized designs and insists on seeking innovative potentials. Without any doubt, strong companies with timely response strategies can survive the epidemic and gain a foothold in the market.

According to analysis, It is trendy that in the near future, the global artificial plants market will grow at an exponential rate. (Source: Transparency Market Research) Due to improvements in design and technology, the demand for faux green plants and trees has increased over years. Besides, artificial plants have a long life span and needn’t require any upkeep costs. What’s more, they are becoming more and more popular among millennials. Due to a lack of time to care for real plants, the demand for artificial plants is expected to surge.

Of course, some people tend to be allergic to certain types of real plants, rather than to the fake plant. As a result, this motivates customers to gradually and more accept them. However, different from natural plants, neither do they release oxygen in the air, nor reduce volatile organic compounds (VOC). Based on the geographical regions, artificial greenery mainly distributes in the US, Canada and many European countries, owing to advanced technology. The disparity of technology has brought transfer and penetration in the untapped green plant artificial market.

From the data and research reports, we can see that there still exists a great demand for artificial plants. Absolutely, artificial greenery and flowers have been a perfect way to add beauty to space for a long time. Besides, such a plant can be stable and durable under any weather conditions and season by season. Even though in indoor residential and commercial settings, they keep in fresh with almost no maintenance costs.

No matter what the actual situation, in reality, we all need to establish confidence and explore more possibilities.

Reasons to Choose Artificial Plants for Outdoors

Today, artificial plants are well designed, shaped, and painted to look very lifelike and are almost indistinguishable from the real plants. These ultra-realistic fake plants are making their way into interior and exterior spaces. If you are looking for durable, low-maintenance plants, then faux leaves and flowers are the best choices.

Benefits & Advantages of Artificial Plants

• No seasonal changes – Artificial plants will not change their appearance by seasonally shedding flowers and leaves which add the appeal of your outdoor or interior decor all year round.
• Less cost for maintenance – It’s true that fake plants require less attention and care when compared to real plants, which save your time and money.
• More durable – Artificial plants are made from advanced PE, which has high durability. And the UV inhibitors help to minimize fading, ensuring permanent lush green for exterior application.
• More realistic appearance – Today’s exquisite craftsmanship makes artificial plants look very lifelike and almost indistinguishable from the real plants.
• Don’t need natural factors – These man-made wonders don’t need water, air, and sunlight, so you don’t have to think about their survival when you are away on holiday.
• Not limited to one place – Artificial plants can be moved and placed wherever you like, which allows you to spruce up your design and give your garden or room a new look.

Best Artificial Plants in 2020

There is a large collection of artificial plants range from different varieties and different sizes, satisfying the design you want. Here are the 3 most popular ones for your reference.

1. Faux boxwood topiary

Let your front-door committee greet your guests with a welcoming invitation of delicate artificial topiary trees. This low-maintenance option doesn’t even require trimming.

2. Artificial hanging basket

Artificial Hanging plants have the benefit of saving floor space, but they can be a real pain to water. Try these alternative artificial hanging baskets that will add life to a room without being needy.

3. Artificial potted plants

More realistic and full of vigor, the artificial plants in a pot look like that they are still growing. They can be placed anywhere, even in a dark and humid place, their beauty will not be affected.

Guide to Buying Fake Plants

1. What to pursue when buying artificial plants?

There’s no doubt that quality is the most important thing because it decides the appearance, durability, and safety of artificial plants. You should steer clear of fake plants that strike you as particularly gimmicky, and focus instead on thoughtful details that feel organic.

2. Tips for selecting premium artificial plants

• Appearance: Observe whether the leaves have clear outlines and realistic stems and veins and whether the color is natural
• Smell: Poor-quality fake plants are made of some recycled materials, may have a pungent smell.
• Touch: Premiumartificial plants have a smooth and soft touch with flexible branches while the poor quality ones have a rough touch.

3. Where to shop for fake plants?

Find a beautiful artificial plant collection in Sunwing, which is committed to R&D, design & manufacture of artificial plants. Complete category including artificial vertical garden, artificial hanging plants, artificial wreaths, and so on. You will get any styles of artificial plants you want here. They are of superior quality since the supervision and inspection starts from sampling. Moreover, our inexhaustible innovation guarantees a constant update of the products. Sunwing as a leading artificial plant supplier, you can trust and choose to make a business with us.

How to Survive with Online Selling

While the world economy is suffering from the corona virus outbreak. Many local offline artificial plant vendors especially those of small-scale are on the verge of bankruptcy and hope to seize online sales to turn things around.

For cash flow failure caused by huge shop rent, procurement and personnel costs, and the most significant of all are to seize all your customer resources and retrieve some money back first. Here are some top tips we collect from the web and our clients to make the best of your online marketing during the corona outbreak.

Online Selling Preparations

First you need a full marketing plan on how to sell, what to sell on what platforms and in which way. Set these in detail when working at home and act according to your urgent plans:

• Building ur Website

If you are doing offline business before, why not building an official website for your premium artificial plant products and service. With a buyable website, you can introduce your latest product or service in detail to the community and get sale. Now it is easy for business owners to create one on Shopify or other platforms.

• SNS Business Homepages

A social business page on the SNS platforms can help reach more viewers and traffic. Introduce to the public and attract more interested engagements to help with your branding in the local. At the same time, social selling with their PPC ads is also great to get profits in a short time.

• Create Shop Section on SNS

It is easy to sell with SNS platforms if you can add a direct shop section on them. For example, Facebook stores can help a lot in collecting sales outside the official website for your business as well.

• Prepare Products Ahead

1. Figure out what products you already have to promote first
2. List which product you want to promote in the future
3. Learning Relative Governmental Customs Policy Ahead
4. Quickly Source and Select Authentic Suppliers
5. Order Ahead to Obtain Lead Time Advantage
6. New Products Marketing Plan Ready

• Keep updated of local delivery services

To shop online, you need to keep aware of the local delivery services and make the best of them in the epidemic.

Online Selling Tactics

• Social Group Marketing

You already have a lot of followers and loyal customers in your SNS platform. Get customers in a different group according to their interests and buying frequency and send demanding information for them to read and convert.

• Email Marketing

A nice greeting or recent move update can help the community known about your current situation. Great artificial plant discounts or offers are welcomed for them to shop first and enjoy later.

• PPC Advertisement

Try to promote your website on Google or social platforms and get more of your target customers known for your current products and service. This will help in collecting traffic in a short time.

Top Online Selling FAQs during the Pandemic:

What to send to your current followers? Here some Content Marketing Tips:

• Authorized Corona Prevention Tips & News
• Positive Opinions about the Virus
• Help the community & Support Each Other – we are in this together!

Demonstrate social responsibility during the epidemic, care for employees, and help enhance the company’s brand image

• Send Nice Greetings and notes frequently
• Keep your community known of your up-to-date company move

How to promote artificial plants online shopping in the Epidemic?

• Promote “Zero Contact” Door Delivery & Encourage to Buy from Local
• Gift Cards with Discounts
• Paid Large Coupons for use after the epidemic
• Frequent Live Videos on Garden kits or DIY kits of ur artificial plants on Social Selling Platform
• New Product Social Warm-up With Paid Large Discount Offers
• Presale Online Shopping – Offer Alternatives to Shipping or Store Pick-up after the Virus

How to Get Staff & Office Quick Resumed to Work after the virus?

• Prepare for Long Term Work from Home and Keep High Efficiency of Work Process
• Keep staff up-to-date of recent company situations and encourage all to work together on helping the company out
• Office Disinfection Preparations
• Source Enough Protective Equipment – Essential to Ensure Quick Resuming of Work
• Prepare Required Documents Ahead of Time for Resume of Work

In this tough time, we all have to work together. When the world economy is rushing. The artificial plants' markets reshuffle, the only thing we can is to plan ahead and seize the chance to avoid falling in the storm.