The harmless process of plastic additives will accelerate

Last week, Huang Jianzhong, director of the Resources Comprehensive Utilization Division of the Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated at the 6th Electronic Information Technology Service Week Technology Forum in Suzhou City that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is implementing the "Measures for the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products" (abbreviation The revision of the Chinese version of RoHS) and the new version of the "Administrative Measures on Pollution Control of Electronic and Electrical Products" (referred to as China's new version of RoHS), for toxic, hazardous substances or elements such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. The scope of management will expand from a single electronic information product to electronic and electrical products. People in the industry believe that this move will accelerate the pace of harmless plastic additives in China.

Huang Jianzhong introduced that China is a major producer and exporter of electronic and electrical products. However, pollution control work in this area is currently limited to electronic information products. It neither meets the needs of energy saving and emission reduction in China's electronic and electrical products, nor can it be implemented by the European Union. RoHS connection. Therefore, the revision of the current management methods is a general trend. There are three major changes in the new version of the management approach: the scope of management has been expanded; the management directory will adopt a more proactive approach to increase incentives for companies; and the products that enter the management catalogue will be subject to national pollution control voluntary certification.

It has been learned that since the implementation of the Chinese version of RoHS in 2007, the awareness of environmental protection of related domestic manufacturers has been enhanced and strengthened, and a great deal of work has been done on the reduction and substitution of six types of toxic and hazardous substances. On the surface, the Chinese version of RoHS is aimed at manufacturers of electronic information products. In fact, the main part of the reduction and replacement programs is the production of plastic additives and special materials. The flame retardants and heat stabilizers currently produced and used in China are And the main varieties of plasticizers are all related to the toxic and harmful substances that are restricted in China's new version of RoHS.

Experts of plastic additives said that the EU's RoHS and the current Chinese version of RoHS only control the export products and some domestic products. The new version of China's RoHS will make up for this shortfall. Once this new management approach is implemented, almost all of the domestic production of electronic and electrical products will be included in the scope of control, which will be a serious challenge for the related plastics additives companies and raw material suppliers, to develop and produce high-performance environmental protection. New type plastic additives have become a top priority.

Chen Yu, vice president of the Beijing Chemical Research Institute, believes that environmental protection and energy conservation have become the prerequisites for the development of plastics additives. New types of additives must reflect the basic principles of environmental protection and energy conservation in order to specifically consider its functionality, efficiency, diversity, and areas. Extensibility and other requirements.