Pollution Prevention Resources for the Painting and Coating Industry

Text Documents

Fact Sheet 34: Acetone Regulations and Pollution Prevention: "What You Should Know" (Also: Acrobat PDF version, 325k) January, 1998

Fact Sheet 23: Pollution Prevention in Painting and Coating Operations. September, 1994

Internet Resources

• CAGE - Coatings Alternative Guide
  The Coating Alternatives Guide (CAGE), is a pollution prevention tool for small- and medium-sized businesses and State technical assistance program representatives. CAGE is an Expert System and information base designed to recommend low-emitting alternative coating technologies to coatings users. In addition, CAGE provides summarized information on recommended alternatives. The system asks the user several questions about their current coating process and tries to match up alternatives that fit the user's operating conditions.
  
  
• Paint and Coatings.com
  Paint and Coatings has been developed expressly for coatings technologists and scientists working in the paint and coatings industries, including inks and thick film printable conductors. Its audience is comprised of chemical engineers, process engineers, chemists, coatings business managers and executives, laboratory personnel, production personnel and others involved in coatings manufacture and services for the coatings industry. Specific industries include paint, ink, organic and inorganic pigments, additives, polymer production, production of specialty chemicals, pollution prevention, hazardous waste control and other types of environmental protection.

• Finishing.com, the Home Page of the Finishing Industry
  Finishing.com is all about surface finishing, from anodizing to powder coating.

• Metal Finishing - The On-Line Finishers Resource
  Metal Finishing is a resource for suppliers, metal finishers, engineers, end-users, specifiers and other professionals who need metal finishing information. This site contains searchable databases for company and product data along with related information for the metal finishing industry. New features include web pages for on-line catalogs, new products, announcements for developments in technology, classifieds for used equipment, chemical, and metals, and much more.

• The National Metal Finishing Resource Center
  The National Metal Finishing Resource Center, an Ohio EPA Office of Pollution Prevention top site was created to serve the needs the of the metal finishing industry and their technical assistance providers. The Center offers pollution prevention and compliance assistance information, creates a forum for information exchange, and helps bring together customers with needs and providers who can supply them.

• National Paints and Coatings Association
  Represents over 400 companies and includes news and information.

• Painter’s Guide to Clean Air
  South Coast, CA - Air Quality Management District

• P2 and Waste Minimization in Painting Processes
  From Kansas SBEAP

• Paint and Coatings Resource Center
  Provided by National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and U.S. EPA.
  
  
• Paints and Coatings Recyclers
  Provided by Ohio EPA, lists recyclers and organizations that accept paint in Ohio and elsewhere.
  
  
• Pollution Solutions in Painting
  Pollution Solutions provides p2 solutions and material substitution information for the painting industry.
  
  
• Powder Coating Institute
  The Powder Coating Institute (PCI), representing the North
  American powder coating industry, promotes powder coating
  technology and communicates the benefits of powder coating to
  manufacturers, consumers, and government. 
  
  
• RadTech International
  RadTech International North America is a nonprofit trade association with members from companies that supply UV/EB equipment, raw materials and formulated products, and other individuals interested in or involved in UV/EB curing technology.
  

  Disclaimer: Many of these links are to pages generated outside of Ohio EPA. Please note that inclusion of this information does not constitute endorsement by Ohio EPA or the State of Ohio. Ohio EPA makes no guarantees expressly or implied regarding data generated outside of the Agency.