Furniture industry atmospheric emission standards implementation: oily coatings will be withdrawn from the market

China Coatings Network
: On July 1 this year, the "Standards for atmospheric pollutant emissions from wood furniture manufacturing industry" for the wood furniture manufacturing industry began to be officially implemented.
The focus of industrial emission reduction includes volatile organic matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, soot and other atmospheric pollutants, and furniture production process
coatings
painting process released volatile organic matter, is one of the sources of atmospheric pollutants, VOCs pollution is an important "contribution" source, one of the main purposes of the new emission standards, is to promote the complete withdrawal of oily coatings from the market.
According to data released by the China Coatings Industry Association, China's coating industry emits about 4.3 million tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the atmosphere each year, of which oily paint accounts for about 98% and water-based paint for about 2%.
Zheng Rehong, deputy director of the pollution prevention and control department of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, said that the current work is to promote enterprises to use organic solvent-based coatings (oily coatings) in the past to replace all
water-based coatings
, otherwise it will be completely out of the market.
for the introduction of new standards, industry insiders said that furniture manufacturers will face a "life and death choice", if you do not replace water-based paint, do not improve the production process, production processes, to meet the standard requirements is impossible.
, "wood furniture manufacturing industry atmospheric pollutant emission standards" standard limits, has been in the world's synchronized level.
Some experts said that the emissions of volatile organic matter of water-like paint is about 1/10 of the emissions of oily paint, but because of the water-like paint on technology, production technology and other requirements, the cost is also high, at present in the domestic furniture industry is not popular. According to industry sources, the current industry only less than 15% of furniture manufacturers use water-like paint.
, vice president of the Beijing Furniture Industry Association, believes that the release of the new standards will be a huge boost to the improvement of Beijing's atmospheric environment. "This is an opportunity to promote the upgrading of The furniture industry in Beijing, which will inevitably eliminate a number of backward production capacity through technological innovation, which is also an inevitable path for the development of the industry."