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EonCoat Chosen as Top Ten Green Product of 2012

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On Thursday, October 6 at the Greenbuild Conference in Toronto EonCoat was named a 2012 Top-10 Green Building Product.

On behalf of the team at EonCoat, I can say that everyone was honored with this distinction and excited to be recognized alongside many other great products.

According to the article highlighting the announcement, “though we discovered these products over the previous year, they are produced by forward-thinking manufacturers that are addressing fundamental building needs for 2012 and beyond.”

Building Green products editor, Brent Ehrlich, had the following to say about EonCoat: “All these years we’ve been using industrial and commercial coatings high in health-threatening and smog-producing VOCs when the ingredients we needed could have been found at any 1950s drug store? EonCoat sounds almost too good to be true, and I have to admit our editors were pretty skeptical at first.”

“This two-part, waterborne ceramic coating is made out of phosphoric acid and milk of magnesia. It’s a fascinating and elegant solution to a problem that has plagued us for decades. And the performance really seems to be there: industrial facilities are starting to use it in highly corrosive environments and finding it amazingly durable.”

MOVIE — http://youtu.be/NnEfaX8t75U

EonCoat’s Environmental Benefits When EonCoat was being developed there were many environmental goals on tap including creating a coating that vastly reduced carbon footprint, generated less waste and lowered VOCs and HAPs.

We are happy to say the EonCoat team of scientists created a ceramic coating that has a 90% smaller carbon footprint than the average paint, (30 pounds of CO2 is created per gallon during manufacturing of the average paint while EonCoat only creates 3 pounds.) has no VOC’s and odor and greatly reduces waste disposal. For more information please visit the links below and thanks again to all our blog readers and to those who selected EonCoat for this award!

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Coating Manufacturers Granted Comment Period for DSW Rule Change

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The EPA has granted the American Coatings Association’s (ACA) request for a 30 day public comment period on proposed revisions to the Definitions of Solid Waste (DSW). The revision of the 2008 DSW comes after the EPA cited “serious gaps” in the transfer requirements of secondary waste materials.

The request by the ACA, and the EPA’s acceptance of a 30 day public comment period, makes a lot of sense. Coating manufactures need some time to read through the rule changes and see how they might affect their businesses. Part of the proposed rule change would require reporting on exemptions to the DSW that were not required before. Each exemption would have to be properly documented and sent to the EPA. While this could create more paperwork for coating manufactures and some additional costs, it’s an important step to help reign-in the disposal of hazardous materials used in manufacturing certain coatings and solvents.

In the new rules change, the EPA cites “sham recycling” as one of the reasons the rules had to be adjusted. They’ve found instances of companies passing off the disposal of dangerous chemicals as “recycling” when in reality these chemicals were either being burned or otherwise improperly disposed of. The agency identified 218 cases of recycling damage nationwide when investigating this problem, over half of which were caused by materials that were not originally included in the 2008 DSW. The public comment period for the rules change will end on September 26, 2011. Visit the EPA’s DSW page for additional details.

What do you think? Is the proposed regulation too restrictive and/or will it cost you money? Do you think these changes are necessary in order to help the environment? Let us know.

Better Business Bureau Questions Sherwin Williams “No VOCs” Claim

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In a bit of “VOCs news”, Sherwin Williams was recently reprimanded by the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) for misleading claims in its Harmony paint line.

  • Interestingly enough, it was Benjamin Moore who brought Harmony’s advertising claims to the attention of the NAD. Benjamin Moore also has a line of “VOC free” paint. In particular, they took issue with the following three statements:
  • “No-VOC formula”
  • “Zero-VOC formula”
  • “Formulated without scilia and without VOCs for better indoor air quality.”

To officially qualify as a VOC-free paint, there must be less than 5 grams per liter of VOCs. While the base paint is below 5 g/L, NAD found that once any tint was added it rose the overall VOC level to between 42 g/L and 112 g/L depending on the color — well over the “no VOCs” threshold. While the non-tinted variety of paint does have VOC levels below 5 g/L, the NAD found that Sherwin Williams did not explain the differences in VOC levels to its customers.

While Sherwin Williams has contested the results it said it will, “…accept the NAD’s decision and will take the NAD’s findings into consideration in its future advertising for Harmony.”

Finding methods to tint paints that do not add to the overall VOC level has proven difficult in the past. EonCoat has solved this problem and uses tints that are completely free of VOCs. In addition, the paint is delivered in a two-component spray gun, completely removing VOCs from the paint making EonCoat the only zero-VOC paint or coating on the market!