REACH TO HAVE GREAT IMPACT ON ASIA PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRY
March 1st, 2007
BY ALAN OSBORNPAINT and coatings manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region could be storing up trouble for themselves if they fail to grasp and act on the full implications of the European Union's (EU) newly minted REACH system for classifying and labelling chemicals. That's the view of a UK expert on the subject who believes that manufacturers outside the EU are being dangerously short-sighted if they believe REACH will not seriously affect them, a view the Asia Pacific Coatings Journal has found is prevalent within the region. Steffen Erler, technical manager of ...
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