The amount of formaldehyde released from wood furniture exceeds the standard. Xiao Enterprise needs to read the "tightening spell"

Recently, a company that produces wooden cabinets in our district encountered a “difficult thing”: the company sent the E1 grade sheets sent by the upstream plate merchants to Xiaoshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for inspection, and found that these plates did not reach E1 at all. Level standard, but a lower grade E2 grade board (E1, E2 refer to an environmental standard for formaldehyde release limit).

"Our products are mainly sold to European countries, and customers have higher requirements for sheet metal. If the non-compliant sheet will be used, it will bring huge losses to the company." The company responsible person is very glad to avoid this loss, but in my heart I can't help wondering: It's not the first upstream manufacturer to cooperate. How could this happen suddenly?

Wood furniture formaldehyde exceeded the standard

Coincidentally, other wooden furniture companies in our district have encountered the same problem. Due to the large price increase of raw materials, some enterprises replaced E1 grade plates with E2 grade plates in order to reduce production costs. The use of enterprises because of the lack of effective verification means, the evaluation of the imported raw materials blindly listen to the so-called qualification guarantee of the supplier. This also directly led to the excessive release of formaldehyde in wooden furniture produced by export enterprises in our district.

Furniture exports have always been a major exporter in Xiaoshan District, accounting for about 8.3% of the region's exports. From January to August this year, 2,745 batches of wooden furniture exported by Xiaoshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau were exported, with a value of 70.793 million US dollars. The batch and value increased slightly compared with the same period of last year, with an increase of 2.8% and 12.6% respectively. The main types of products are bathroom cabinets, office furniture, wooden doors, etc., mainly exported to the United States, France, Spain, Australia and other countries and regions.

As with many other export industries, rising costs have made the profits of furniture exports thinner and thinner. Not only must we face problems such as rising labor costs, but the “trees and regulations” that continue to appear in the European and American markets have also directly affected the export of Chinese furniture. Judging from the results of the sampling inspection of the exported wood furniture by Xiaoshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, the problem of excessive formaldehyde in wood furniture is more serious.

According to statistics, from January to August 2013, a total of 407 batches of samples were tested, including 339 batches of formaldehyde and 68 batches of heavy metals in paint. 11 batches of unqualified samples were detected, all of which exceeded the standard for formaldehyde emission, which required the attention of the majority of wood furniture export enterprises. .

Wooden furniture exports "added to the snow"

In addition to manufacturers malicious replacement of plates, some of the wooden furniture export enterprises in our district are affected by the trading countries, ignoring the control of toxic and hazardous substances. According to relevant persons from Xiaoshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, the exporting countries of some enterprises are mainly Middle Eastern countries. The quality requirements for wooden furniture are not very high. They only pursue novelty and low prices, which cause manufacturers to pay attention to the control of toxic and hazardous substances of raw materials. .

The above-mentioned people also said that foreign technical trade measures also affected the amount of formaldehyde released from the sheet exceeding the standard. Recently, export markets such as Europe and the United States have successively introduced new regulations, which have once again raised the threshold for the import of wood products, making the export of wood products worse. After the United States began implementing forest FSC certification for wood and wood products in March this year, at the end of May, the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA proposed two proposed regulations to improve environmental standards for imported wood products.

Taking particleboard as an example, the formaldehyde emission requirement is 1000 times higher than the Chinese standard. After preliminary evaluation, if the production is based on the new US standards, the cost of wood-based panels is expected to increase by 30% to 50%, and the cost of wood-based furniture based on wood-based panels will increase by 15% to 20%.

National supervision enhances corporate integrity

How to effectively control the formaldehyde emission of the board and improve the quality level of the exported wood furniture in the jurisdiction?

The Xiaoshan District Inspection and Quarantine Bureau also made relevant recommendations. "After the shoddy, fake and genuine violations, once it is verified, it shall be dealt with according to law, and enterprises that have caused serious quality disputes and problems due to illegal production shall be exposed. If the circumstances are particularly serious, they shall be included in the enterprise blacklist. It will be announced on the Internet and in the media, so that the whole society can jointly monitor it."

Relevant persons from the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of our district believe that it is also a very effective way to better play the role of industry associations and establish a quality integrity record of enterprises. For example, enterprises that have found that the quality of the products are unqualified are registered and classified into the enterprise files. If the accumulated number of times reaches a certain number of times, the company will be downgraded or suspended production, and a corresponding quality accountability system will be established. Faced with the emergence of global green trade barriers, the above-mentioned people also proposed to establish a risk warning mechanism to notify enterprises of relevant warning information in a timely manner.

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