NEW EU NANOTECHNOLOGY REGULATION PROVOKES ASSESSMENTS IN PAINT SECTOR
January 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE
NANOTECHNOLOGY may be producing opportunities for coatings and paint producers, but as regulation slowly catches up with the environmental health concerns surrounding the technology, it is also creating sizeable headaches for the industry.
Last year (2011), the European Commission finally settled on a definition of a nanoparticle. While this might sound like an arcane discussion for laboratory-based scientists, the definition promises far-reaching repercussions for paint and coatings companies.
According to the European Commission, nanoparticles ...
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