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Technical Assistance Resources for Pollution Prevention (TARP2)

Painting and Coating Industry

  • 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.

  • Chemical Coaters Association

    The Chemical Coaters Association is an educational and networking association for the finishing industry. They provide and exchange information on new technologies, and educational programs.

  • 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.

  • The Paint / Coatings Net

    The Paint / Coatings Net is a collection of resources, companies, and people involved in the paint and coatings industry and related finishing fields.

  • 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.

  • Ohio EPA P2 Information for the Painting and Coating Industry

  • Pollution Solutions in Painting

    Pollution Solutions provides p2 solutions and material substitution information for the painting industry.

  • 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: Some of the hyper-links contained in TARP2 point 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.

A printed copy of the Office of Pollution Prevention publications distribution list, "Pollution Prevention Information Available from Ohio EPA", may also be ordered by calling (614) 644-3469.


Office of Pollution Prevention
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1049
Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049
Phone (614) 644-3469
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