China introduces tough domestic standards for wooden furniture

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The air pollutant emission standard for the Chinese wooden furniture manufacturing industry (DB11/1202-2015) has been released. This has been hailed as Beijing's strictest environment standard for wooden furniture. The new standard has come into effect 1 July 2015.

The new standard not only widens the restrictions applied it also has detailed provisions on coatings, production environment, production technology used in furniture manufacturing.

In the new standard, pollutant limits are 30 times lower than in the old standard. For example, the maximum allowable emission concentration of Benzene is 17 mg/m3 in the old standard, however, it is 0.5 mg/m3 in the new standard.

One of the main purposes to formulating the new emission standard is to eliminate oil based coatings. Water based coatings paint are considered more environmentally friendly.

However, less than 15% of the furniture production companies in China use water based coatings as oil based materials are esier and cheaper to apply.

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