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U.S. chemical companies can benefit from compliance with the European regulation.

How do powder coaters paint for less than liquid paint? And which is better, at high volume production, a vertical line, or a horizontal line?

I am confused about how to properly dispose of filters from a recently installed paint booth.

"I implore our new administration in Washington to take the lead and bring good sense and reason back into the regulatory process."

My concern centers around the alkaline cleaner stage. Current practice has been to dump this stage as is. Just before the last dump, I checked the pH and found it to be 12.7. I checked our wastewater discharge permit and the only pH limitation it has is that it prohibits pH less than 5.5. In other words, it has no upper pH limit. At my two other jobs, we were told discharging a wastewater of that high pH was “illegal according to EPA.” Since my discharge permit gives me no upper pH limit, am I OK?

Reduces 800,000 pounds of VOCs by using soybean oil and recycled plastic

The international trade deficit on goods and services plunged $5.1B for November (sequentially), dropping from $39.3B in October to $34.3B for the latest month. Exports grew $1.7B for the month while imports contracted $3.4B.

What impact would zinc nickel have on our wastewater treatment system? Are there any other environmental issues?

We have a wastewater pretreatment system that consists of several sumps and holding tanks. For level control, we use mercury float switches. Periodically, these go bad and have to be replaced. Since spent fluorescent lamps contain mercury and can’t be thrown into our regular trash, what do we do about these switches?

450,000-square-foot, bi-level paint shop at the Fairfax Assembly and Stamping Plant in Kansas City