1/1/2007 deadline for Non compliant paints

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Hannover Heritage

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Hi There,

Just a little reminder to you guys who are in the process of restoring or are thinking about restoring your baby in the near future.

The EU has just made it unlawful for paint manufacturers to sell Non compliant paints from 1/1/07

The paint distributors will be allowed to sell non-compliant stock until the end of 2007,

All non compliant paints, ie 2k base coats, 2k solid colours and of course cellulose paints (since '06) are not being produced due to VOC content.

Most big grade "A" paint suppliers have, so I've been told, brought enough in to last for the first 1/4 of the year so most, if not all colours will still be available.

There is a clause in all of this for the restorer in that any vehicle restorer can still legally use non compliant paints due to the nature of the job but it begs the question as to who is going to supply it and what is it's quality.

The grade "A" paint suppliers like Glasurit, ICI, Spies Hecker, Sikkens etc.. may not be interested in supplying such a small corner of the refinishing market.

Anyway, It might be an idea to ask your local paint supplier sooner rather than later if you intend painting your beloved yourself.

Otherwise It'll have to be water based which really needs the appropriate drying facility's and isn't really designed to be painted out of an uprated spraybooth.

Hope this is helpful to some of you.

Regards,
Stuart
 
This might be a bit of a problem as most painters that are using water based base coat are using 2k laquer.

Water based laquer is not all that clever from what I have heard.

Think I might go & get my paint sooner rather than later. Although my paint supplier doesn't think there will be an immediate problem...

It might be a good idea to keep an eye on the situation...
 
i love the EU, they scupper us trying to restore old vehicles but its ok for big multi-nationals to pollute the planet :x :x :x
My local paintshop was a bit funny selling stuff to you if you werent sure what you wanted, ill have to keep an eye on this as i intend to play with old cars for a long time.... maybe its time to move to the states of start a new look..... dulux look anyone!



maybe have a dulux deluxe! got ya thinking havent i!
 
Yeh, sounds crazy, at the moment we still have to use a 2k laquer over the water base which, in a way kinda makes the whole "GREEN" thing daft but the VOC's are still halfed i guess.

Good old EU.
 

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