VOCs emission factors and regulations of surface coating and printing process in U.S.A, Europe, and Japan etc. were surveyed in the report. VOCs emission data of thirty three factories including six paint manufacturing factories, four ink manufacturing factories, sixteen surface coating factories, and seven printing factories were also investigated by interviewing directly. We summarized seventy questionnaires of paint production characteristic (Recovery rate is 49.0%) and eighteen in ink (Recovery rate is 47.3%), and estimated the production of paints and inks in Taiwan are about 188,000 tones and 15,000 tones during 2002. By results, we supposed that there are above 140,000 and 12,000 tones VOCs emitted each year by surface coating and printing process. It is suggested to EPA the VOCs reduction strategies in surface coating and printing industries which are by“VOCs Baseline Inventory”,”Pollution Control Consulting”,“Market Competition”, and“Regulation Control”. By “VOCs Baseline Inventory”, it could not only set up VOCs emission database but quantify the contribution of each VOCs reduction strategy after all. EPA could also help factories to develop their pollution controlling technology by ” Pollution Control Consulting”, and improve the competitiveness of low-VOCs-content products by levying a VOCs tax on products (“Market Competition”). Furthermore, setting a regulation of VOCs emission forces factories to match the VOCs reduction goals.

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