Water-road paint project from Tübitak
09 November 2010 arrriyet.com
The annual average of 50 million TL per year in Turkey, located among countries with the long road network and 13 thousand tons of toluene blended paint will reduce both costs, and work for the production of ‘Water-based line paint’ that won’t harm the environment.
[[T]]The water-based paints to be improved with the study launched in the Marmara Research Center will not lead to harmful emissions since will not be cooledd as solvent. [[[T]] [Tübitak Deputy President of Marmara Research Center Prof. To the information received from Dr. Önder Yetiş, Karayollar General Directorate consumes an average of 13 thousand tons of road line paint. Only the cost of paint finds 26 million TL. In solvent in this paint, the effective is used in solvent 3 thousand 250 tons, which is harmful to human and environmental health. With glass space applications, Karayollar General Directorate of road costs about 50 million TL. [
Tübitak Marmara Research Center will drop about 8 million TL in the annual paint cost, and the water-based road line paint, which will not lead to resources such as toluen, started to work the project to be improved. With the transition to the water-based system, the removal of the threat problem is distributed that the damage to the minimum will be minimized, while the project result was stated that the products to be improved, commercial and military purpose can also be applied to other systems.
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