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Tighter EU Regulations on Air Emissions Imposed on European Coatings and Other Industries
Dec 17, 2014The likelihood of tighter European Union regulations on air emissions being imposed on the European coatings and other industries has been receding as the EU gives top priority to economic growth at a time when many of the region’s ...
Tags: IAQ labelling system, volatile organic compounds, Construction
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European Coatings Industry Prove Challenging
Jul 7, 2014For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
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Sustainability Initiatives Have Reached a New Phase in European Coatings Sector
Jun 9, 2014Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
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The Use of Biomaterials and More Benign Chemicals in Coatings in Europe Is Accelerating
Jan 16, 2014The use of biomaterials and more benign chemicals in coatings in Europe is accelerating as whole supply chains give greater priority to sustainablity, particularly as a means of protecting the environment. At the same time, however, ...
Tags: standards for biomaterials, sustainability of products
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The European Union Has Started Implementing a Tough New Safety Regulation on Biocides
Oct 25, 2013The European Union has started implementing a tough new safety regulation on biocides in coatings and other applications that is likely to result in the withdrawal from the European market of large numbers of coatings chemicals for dealing ...
Tags: Construction, coating, coatings chemicals
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BCF Is Expanding Training Program for The Coatings Industry Worldwide with a New Partners
Oct 11, 2013The British Coatings Federation (BCF) is expanding its training program for the coatings industry worldwide with a new partner, Vincentz Network. The agreement was signed during the CEPE Annual Meeting in Prague between Tom Bowtell (CEO ...
Tags: Coatings, coatings industry
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CEPE Announce That Didier Leroy Will Become The New Technical Director
Jan 22, 2013CEPE, the European Council of Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours industry, announce that effective Feb. 20, 2103, Didier Leroy will become the new technical director. He succeeds Jacques Warnon, who will retire from CEPE. ...
Tags: CEPE, Printing, 2103, technical director
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European Coatings Sector Faces The Prospect of Having to Update Continually Information
Jan 16, 2013The European Union’s controversial REACH legislation on the safety of chemicals has been challenging chemical producers and their raw material suppliers since it came into effect five years ago. Initially the major concern was that ...
Tags: European Union, chemicals, coatings sector
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European Coatings:The Communication of Safety Information
Dec 21, 2012The European coatings sector is being confronted with one of its most difficult challenges in the communication of safety information to its customers and other paint users. This communications problem stems from the ...
Tags: coatings sector, European, REACH
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Paint Producers and Their Raw Material Suppliers in Europe to Make Sustainability
Dec 21, 2012Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
Tags: paint producers, raw material suppliers, Europe, CEPE
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Confusion Still Remains Over What Exactly Nanomaterials Are Being Defined as
Dec 1, 2011Confusion still remains over what exactly nanomaterials are being defined as. The European Commission, the European Union's Brussels-based executive, has at last published a definition of nanomaterials. But both environmentalists and ...
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