The new environmental protection standards have been introduced, and furniture companies should be careful.

Recently, the "Emission Standard for Air Pollutants in Wood Furniture Manufacturing Industry", which is known as the most stringent environmental standard in the history of furniture, was officially released. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that the pollutant discharge limits of the standard have reached the international advanced level, and the standard will be implemented on July 1 this year. In recent years, the environmental protection of the entire home furnishing industry has not only attracted the attention of the state, but also the concerns and needs of consumers.

National environmental standards continue to improve

It is reported that according to the opinion draft published by the quality supervision department at the end of last year, the standard stipulates the limits, monitoring and control requirements for the emission of atmospheric pollutants in the production process of the wooden furniture manufacturing industry, as well as the implementation and supervision of standards, and will involve new construction. Renovation and expansion of environmental impact assessment of wooden furniture production lines, design of environmental protection facilities, completion of environmental protection acceptance and management of atmospheric pollutants after commissioning. The standards issued during the same period are the Boiler Air Pollutant Emission Standards, and boilers in wooden furniture manufacturing enterprises are also required to implement this standard.

Although the standard is only a local standard for Beijing, the formulation and implementation of this standard also indicates the importance that the state attaches to environmental improvement. Similarly, we can see that environmental protection is increasingly important in social development. . Relevant media reports that the latest revision of the national standard for formaldehyde release in interior decoration materials, wood-based panels and their products (GB18580-2001), which has been in use since 2002, has entered the approval stage, and it will rise to mandatory after adoption. Sexual national standards; the revision of the National Standard for Hazardous Substances in Wood Furniture (GB18584-2001) has also been basically completed; "Limited Quantity of Hazardous Substances in Upholstered Furniture Sofas" and "Limits of Hazardous Substances in Upholstered Furniture Mattresses" The national standard has been drafted.

Consumer needs and requirements

According to relevant media reports, when more than half of consumers in China purchase home improvement building materials, the first consideration is that the products are not healthy and healthy. The ring is not environmentally friendly. It can be seen that the consumer's consumption concept has changed. In the future, China's home building materials market will definitely be the "green consumption" in the mainstream.

In fact, with the continuous development of the economy, people's quality of life and consumption levels have also been continuously improved, and people's consumption demand for furniture products has gradually changed. When people buy home products, they begin to pay more attention to and consider the environmental protection and health of the products. Therefore, the “green” of products has become an irreversible trend in the development of the industry.

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