The Environment and Solvent Use

In order to achieve the objective set down in Section 7(2)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Local Authorities are obliged to ensure that, in carrying on a prescribed process, the Best Available Technology Not Entailing Excessive Cost (BATNEEC) [8] will be used  

Thus solvents have to be reduced in line with targets, eliminated, recovered or incinerated. In order to assist customers for whom solvent recovery or combustion is not economically viable, Henkel decided to support the new EEC VOC Directives using a philosophy similar to the BATNEEC philosophy stipulated by the UK Department of the Environment and other national requirements, by developing waterborne products to eliminate solvent emissions. 

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