From May 1st, furniture manufacturing has banned solvent-based coatings.

Shenzhen atmospheric environmental management again punch, from May 1 this year, Shenzhen furniture products manufacturing process will be completely prohibited the use of solvent-based
coatings
, adhesives and toxic sheet, then, Shenzhen furniture will become a true sense of environmental protection furniture. This is the reporter from yesterday held the city's furniture manufacturing enterprises VOCs pollution control work meeting was informed.
, with the continuous deepening of atmospheric environmental management, Shenzhen air quality has been continuously improved, stable to meet the national air quality standards. However, it should be noted that the problem of ozone pollution in Shenzhen is becoming more and more prominent under the circumstances that the pollutant indicators continue to improve. Since 2015, the number of days ozone as a major pollutant has exceeded PM2.5 for two consecutive years, making it the leading pollutant. Therefore, the control of volatile organic matter (VOCs) pollution becomes the key to atmospheric environmental management.
furniture industry is not only Shenzhen's dominant traditional industry, but also Shenzhen VOCs emissions of the largest industry, the annual use of paint about 20,000 tons, VOCs emissions of more than 10,000 tons. In order to further improve the quality of the atmospheric environment, in February this year, the municipal government issued the "Shenzhen Atmospheric Environmental Quality Improvement Plan (2017-2020)," explicitly requiring the city's furniture industry by the end of June to completely prohibit the use of high volatile organic matter content coatings. Shenzhen Special Economic Zone technical specification "the furniture finished products and raw auxiliary materials in the limited number of hazardous substances" will also be implemented from May 1, 2017 the second phase of the limit requirements, the implementation of this standard means that the furniture product manufacturing process in Shenzhen will be a total ban on the use of solvent-based coatings, adhesives and toxic sheet, strictly limit toxic and harmful residue content indicators.
City Habitat Environment Commission officials said that in the furniture manufacturing industry to complete the complete water-based transformation, the city's VOCs emissions will be reduced by more than 80%. Shenzhen furniture products will become the domestic market in the true sense of environmental protection furniture.
it is understood that in order to promote furniture enterprises to complete the production line transformation work as soon as possible, the municipal government will complete the transformation of all production lines of enterprises to give financial subsidies, subsidies are expected to be raised to the enterprise production line water-based transformation costs of 40%.