Paint, ink, adhesive, cleaning agent VOC new national standard testing service
helps enterprises win the battle to protect blue sky
On July 3, 2018, the State Council issued the "Three-Year Action Plan to Win the Battle to Protect Blue Sky", which regulates the VOC test methods and content limits of four VOC high-risk materials: paint, ink, adhesive, and cleaning agent. In 2019-2020, the National Standardization Administration formulated and announced 10 mandatory national standards to limit the VOCs content of paint, ink, adhesive, cleaning agent and other products.
Service Background
On July 3, 2018, the State Council issued the "Three-Year Action Plan to Win the Battle to Protect Blue Sky", which clarified the overall ideas, basic goals, main tasks and guarantee measures for air pollution prevention and control, and proposed a timetable and roadmap for winning the battle to protect blue sky. The plan regulates the VOC test methods and content limits for four VOC high-risk materials: coatings, inks, adhesives, and cleaning agents. In 2019-2020, the National Standardization Administration has formulated and announced 10 mandatory national standards for limiting the VOCs content of coatings, inks, adhesives, cleaning agents and other products. The list of standards and implementation dates are as follows:

Standard No.

Name

Alternative Standard

Implementation Date

GB 18581-2020

Limits of Hazardous Substances in Wood Coatings

GB 18581-2009

GB 24410-2009

2020-12-01

GB 18582-2020

Limits of Hazardous Substances in Wall Coatings for Buildings

GB 18582-2008

GB 24408-2009

2020-12-01

GB 24409-2020

Limits of harmful substances in vehicle coatings

GB 24409-2009

2020-12-01

GB 30981-2020

Limits of harmful substances in industrial protective coatings

GB 30981-2014

2020-12-01

GB 38468-2019

Limits of harmful substances in indoor floor coatings

2020-07-01

GB 38469-2019

Limits of harmful substances in marine coatings

2020-07-01

GB 33372-2020

Limits of volatile organic compounds in adhesives

GB 33372-2016

2020-12-01

GB 38507-2020

Limits of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in inks

2021-04-01

GB 38508-2020

Limits of volatile organic compound content in cleaning agents

2020-12-01

GB 38597-2020

Low volatile organic compound content coatings

Product technical requirements

2021-02-01

In recent years, various regions have issued local or regional laws, regulations and rules and regulations in accordance with the "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law" and "Winning the Blue Sky Defense War", encouraging the use of coatings, inks, adhesives and cleaning agents with low volatile organic content. Traditional high-risk and high-pollution products must be upgraded and transformed to meet the requirements of green production.

The implementation of this series of standards will have a significant impact on the production and application companies of coatings, inks, adhesives and cleaning agents. At present, in response to the Blue Sky Defense Action Plan, end-user companies at all levels are investigating products such as coatings, inks, adhesives, cleaning agents, etc. involved in the supply chain.