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Julho 2009
PAINT & PINTURA
Changes and adaptations
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hemical companies are ceasing to be frowned upon by society because they are more concerned each year
with preventing their products and processes from harming the environment and human health. Their ac-
tions and investments on this front are clearly shown throughout this issue of Paint & Pintura.
All of this concern has a cause: the reaction of nature all over the world has been scaring populations and
especially triggering urgent measures to help to maintain the equilibrium of nature. And this is actually
happening in all markets, including the paint industry.
The pieces on inorganic pigments and hydrocarbon solvents published in this issue show that companies are seeking
to present the market with friendlier products, i.e. they are replacing harmful processes and raw materials with
heavy metal-free products. This is a very good sign, as it demonstrates that companies are becoming aware of the
importance of preserving nature and health, including because catastrophes are forecasted for a not very distant
future.
For the near future, there are rather optimistic expectations for the second half of 2009, as there was little or no
growth at all in the paint market in the first half due to the economic crisis that hit Brazil in the last quarter of
2008 and caused major losses, especially in the first few months of 2009, leaving the whole industry in panic.
Now, however, it’s time to adapt for this new phase, with changes within the organizations and in structures, pri-
ces, inventories and investments. In this regard, Brazil, or better still, Brazilians can be said to be very fast learners.
Let’s hope for considerable improvements in the country’s economy and believe that the paint market will continue
to grow as it did in the recent past.
Enjoy reading!
Lucélia Monfardini
Editorial
Technical Article – Enge Solutions
Ultrasound sieving
High efficiency and high productivity are constantly sought
by engineers and companies everyday, which is why high-
technology processes are applied in the means of production
to provide reliability and repeatability.
Sectoral Quality Program – Decorative Paints
Proven quality!
Products certified under the Sectoral Quality Program for
Decorative Paints are totally quality-assured. In addition,
the programs represents a very important breakthrough in
that more than 80 percent of all decorative paints marketed
in Brazil currently meet minimum quality requirements.
The Brazilian Association of Paint Manufacturers, known
for short as Abrafati, has been searching for many years for
ways of organizing the paint market and eliminating poor-
quality paints, as they realized that several manufacturers
used condemnable practices. Therefore, the institution
created the Sectoral Quality Program for Decorative Paints,
which is aimed at modernizing and improving the quality
of products used in building and construction. “We have
always pursued these goals along with the ABNT (Brazilian
Association for Technical Standards) and the CB-02 (Brazi-
lian Building and Construction Committee). With the crea-
tion of the PBQP-H (Brazilian Habitat Quality and Producti-
vity Program) in 1998, Abrafati gained a major contribution
to its efforts, deepening its studies and further developing
its procedures to launch the Sectoral Quality Program for
Decorative Paints,” said Abrafati’s CEO Dilson Ferreira.
RadTech Article - UV-curing inks and varnishes for food
packaging
One cannot talk about food safety without taking into
consideration the packaging materials that have contact
with food products. They need to be inert enough to exclude
the transfer of any substances to the food in amounts that
could pose risks to human health or cause an unacceptable
alteration in the composition of the packed food product or
deterioration in its organoleptic properties.
Today, with the advance of the UV curing technology, UV-
curing printing inks and varnishes can be formulated in a
safe manner, achieving very low migration rates (<10mg/kg
of food) and odor levels.
When it comes to UV-curing printing inks and varnishes
that have an indirect contact with foods, we must take into
consideration the following factors:
Pigments: They must comply with the heavy metals re-
quirement of Resolution no. 105/99 issued by the ANVISA
(National Sanitary Authority) and the French positive list.
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