China’s Beijing implements stricter regulations on VOC content in coatings, adhesives for buildings

On Sept. 28, 2023, the Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau and other two government departments of Beijing, China, announced stricter regulations on volatile organic compound (VOC) content in coatings and adhesives for buildings.

According to the announcement, Beijing’s mandatory local standard called the Limit Standards of Volatile Organic Compounds of Architectural Coatings and Adhesives (DB11/1983-2022) are now enforced more effectively, and the production, sale and use of coatings and adhesives for buildings are not allowed if these products do not meet the VOC content limits of this standard.

Coatings and adhesives for buildings produced before the DB11/1983-2022 standard took effect Oct. 1, 2022 cannot be sold if they do not meet this standard.