AUSTRALASIAN PAINT INDUSTRY ADOPTS ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PRACTICES
June 1st, 2006
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
THE PAINT industries of Australia and New Zealand and their customers have taken several steps towards a more environmental and socially responsible approach making and applying coatings over the past 12 months, in both commercial and domestic markets.
The most striking example comes from Australia-based White Knight Paints who, after four years of intensive research, have developed and launched an aerosol paint that cannot be used for 'chroming' (better known as paint-sniffing), the deliberate inhalation of the solvents to achieve a ...
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