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Market Analysis of the paint industry in Indonesia (English / Bahasa)

December 2019
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Elimination of Lead in Paint in Indonesia - Baseline Information - Indonesia’s paint marketIndonesia holds the first position as the biggest market in paint and coating in South East Asia with the 268 million population and high urbanization rate (57%). Indonesian paint and coating industry growth rate is 6% annually for the past five consecutive years. Paint and coating industry in Indonesia involves six multinational, four domestic, and large numbers of small-scale domestic producers, with the most demand from architectural
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National Baseline Survey of Paint Market in Peru

October 2019
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have established the joint initiative Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint Alliance) to prevent children’s exposure to lead from paints containing lead and to minimize occupational exposures to lead paints. The broad objective of the Alliance is to promote a phase-out of the manufacture and sale of paints containing lead and eventually eliminate the risks from such paint.CER/Grupo GEA implements the Component 1 “Promoting regulatory and voluntary
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National baseline information on lead paint in Jordan

September 2019
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The World Health Organization (WHO) with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has launched the initiative called "Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint" whose goal is to phase-out the manufacture and sale of paintings that contain lead thereby reducing the exposition to this metal and eliminating its risks and effects on the population.In Jordan there are 77 factories for the production of paints, there are laws and standard to regulate the paint manufacturing in Jordan and to reduce the use
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Lead levels in paint around the world

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March 2019
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This interactive map provides country-specific data on lead paint levels around the world. Lead in paint is a major source of lead exposure for children globally. Since 2009, more than 100 studies from 59 countries have shown that lead paints are still widely sold in low- and middle-income countries. IPEN-affiliated NGOs conducted the majority of these studies, comprising more than 3,300 solvent-based paints. Many of these paints contained very high levels of lead above 10,000 parts per million (ppm) of
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