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Green Makes Business $ense: Surface Coating Operations
Many companies are reviewing their surface coating operations as part of their overall environmental improvement program to help them reduce the amount of hazardous waste generated and to save on hazardous waste disposal costs. Environmental improvement programs also help generate more business by meeting your customer's corporate or individual environmental goals.
Coatings protect manufactured parts from corrosion and help improve overall appearance but frequently contain toxic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). Use the following resources to learn strategies to help you:
- Reduce Overspray
- Optimize Transfer Efficiency
- Explore Using Non-HAP, Low-VOC Solvents and Coatings
- Limit Solvent Use
Links
- Green Suppliers Network: Clean Lines: Strategies for Reducing Your Environmental Footprint
Provides a list of technologies and techniques that can be applied to your coating operation to help reduce the amount of hazardous waste that you generate and cut down on hazardous waste disposal costs. - National Paint and Coatings Association
A nonprofit trade association that includes strategies for producing products in an environmentally conscious way without compromising product performance. - Research Triangle Institute's Solvent Alternatives Guide (SAGE)
A comprehensive guide designed to provide pollution prevention information on solvent and process alternatives for parts cleaning and degreasing.
Contact Paul Harding (801-536-4108) or Frances Bernards (801-536-0086) for further information on the content of this page.
