While all manufactured goods including paints have an environmental cost, we minimise this cost through product selection, usage, and waste management.
Our water based, low VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints are low odour which is great for your home environment and the global environment.
volatile organic compounds An increasingly common term in the paint industry and environmental discussions generally is the term VOC which is the short form of Volatile Organic Compounds. Increasingly pressure is being placed on paint makers and paint users to look for low or zero VOC products, however for us to make the best decision we need to better understand what VOC’s are.
‘Organic Compounds’ means chemicals that are built on carbon and ‘Volatile’ is currently accepted in most
countries as a boiling point of less than 250°C. However, the debate around VOC’s is a political one and this has led to exemptions and inclusions which are different in different countries, and often inconsistent. Further to this, there is a difference between different VOC’s with alcohols not only being enjoyable on occasion, but also much shorter lived in the atmosphere (and therefore much less damaging) than its excluded brother acetone.
In Australia, acetone – which is an organic compound – and whose boiling point is considerably lower than 50°C is not classified as a VOC while ammonia which is not an organic compound is classified as a VOC.
More recently those with an interest in one of the most common coalescents have successfully argued for the
acceptance of a new test method which shows a boiling point of 251°C – under the old test method its boiling point was deemed to be 246°C! Our declared results below include this coalescent if it is present in our formulae (most don’t contain this ingredient).
MUROBOND PRODUCT | VOC LEVEL grams per litre |
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Anti Graffiti Wax | 60 |
Aqua Glaze Pearl | 28 |
Bridge Paint | 49 |
Cement Paint | 0 |
Clear Acrylic Sealer | 13 |
Silicate Matt Clear | 0 |
Metal Primer | 49 |
Mineral Silicate | 0 |
Murobond Primer | 52 |
Murobond Sealer | 4 |
Murolast | 8 |
Murolast Matt | 72 |
Murothane | 69 |
Murowash | 10 |
Pentimento Lime Wash | 40 |
PURE Aqua Gloss | 54 |
PURE Aqua Satin | 52 |
PURE Ceiling flat | 46 |
PURE Chalk | 38 |
PURE Grain | 38 |
PURE Low Sheen | <1 |
PURE Wall Flat | 38 |
Rust Paint part 1 | 19.1 |
Rust Paint part 2 | 19.3 |
Rust Paint part 3 | 19.1 |
Woodwash Exterior | 22 |
Woodwash Interior | 13 |
WSC | 0 |