Solvent Emissions (Scotland) Regulations 2004: guidance

adhesive coating coating

means any preparation, including all the organic solvents or preparations containing organic solvents necessary for its proper application, which is used to provide a decorative, protective or other functional effect on a surface.

coating activity

means any activity in which a single or a multiple application of a continuous film of a coating is applied (including a step in which the same article is printed using any technique) but does not include the coating of substrate with metals by electrophoretic and chemical spraying techniques.

coil coating

means any activity where coiled steel, stainless steel, coated steel, copper alloys or aluminium strip is coated with either a film forming or laminate coating in a continuous process.

dry cleaning

means any industrial or commercial activity using volatile organic compounds in an installation to clean garments, furnishing and similar consumer goods excluding the manual removal of stains and spots in the textile and clothing industry.

flexography

means a printing activity using an image carrier of rubber or elastic photopolymers on which the printing areas are above the non-printing areas and using liquid inks which dry through evaporation.

footwear manufacture

means any activity of producing complete footwear or parts of footwear.

heatset web offset printing

means a web-fed printing activity using an image carrier in which the printing and non-printing area are in the same plane, where-(a) the non-printing area is treated to attract water and reject ink;(b) the printing area is treated to receive and transmit ink to the surface to be printed; and(c) evaporation takes place in the oven where hot air is used to heat the printed material.

ink

means a preparation, including all the organic solvents or preparations containing organic solvents necessary for its proper application which is used in a printing activity to impress text or images on to a surface.

laminating associated to a printing activity

means the adhering together of two or more flexible materials to produce laminates.

manufacturing of coating preparations, varnishes, inks and adhesives

means the manufacture of coating preparations, varnishes, inks and adhesives as final products and where carried out at the same site the manufacture of intermediates, by the mixing of pigments, resins and adhesive materials with organic solvent or other carrier, including.

(a) dispersion and predispersion activities.

(b) viscosity and tint adjustments; and

(c) operations for filling the final product into its container.

manufacturing of pharmaceutical products

means one or more of the following activities:

(a) the chemical synthesis;

(b) fermentation;

(c) extraction; or

(d) formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products and where carried out at the same site, the manufacture of intermediate products.

other coating activities

means a coating activity applied to:

(a) metallic and plastic surfaces including surfaces of airplanes, ships, trains;

(b) textile, fabric, film and paper surfaces.

printing activity

means any activity (not being a step in a coating activity) for reproducing text and/or images in which, with the use of an image carrier, ink is transferred onto any type of surface, including the use of associated varnishing, coating and laminating techniques.

publication rotogravure

means a rotogravure printing activity used for printing paper for magazines, brochures, catalogues or similar products, using toluene-based inks.

rotary screen printing

means a web-fed printing activity in which liquid ink which dries only through evaporation is passed onto the surface to be printed by forcing it through a porous image carrier, in which the printing area is open and the non-printing area is sealed off.

rotogravure

means a printing activity using a cylindrical image carrier in which the printing area is below the non-printing area and liquid inks which dry through evaporation in which the recesses are filled with ink and the surplus is cleaned off the non-printing area before the surface to be printed contacts the cylinder and lifts the ink from those recesses.

rubber conversion

means;

(a) any activity of mixing, milling, blending, calendaring, extrusion and vulcanisation of natural or synthetic rubber; and

(b) any ancillary operations for converting natural or synthetic rubber into a finished product.

surface cleaning

means any activity, except dry cleaning, using organic solvents to remove contamination from the surface of material including degreasing but excluding the cleaning of equipment; and a cleaning activity consisting of more than one step before or after any other activity shall be considered as one surface cleaning activity.

vehicle coating

means a coating activity applied to the following vehicles:

(a) new cars, defined as vehicles of category M1 in Directive 70/156/EEC[11], and of category N1 in so far as they are coated at the same installation as M1 vehicles;

(b) truck cabins, defined as the housing for the driver, and all integrated housing for the technical equipment, of vehicles of categories N2 and N3 in Directive 70/156/EEC;

(c) vans and trucks, defined as vehicles of categories M2 and M3 in Directive 70/156/EEC, but not including truck cabins

(d) buses, defined as vehicles of categories M2 and M3 in Directive 70/156/EEC.

(e) trailers, defined in categories O1, O2, O3 and O4 in Directive 70/156/EEC

varnishing

means an activity by which varnish or an adhesive coating for the purpose of sealing the packaging material is applied to a flexible material.

vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities

means any activity to extract vegetable oil from seeds and other vegetable matter, the processing of dry residues to produce animal feed, the purification of fats and vegetable oils derived from seeds, vegetable matter or animal matter.

vehicle refinishing

means any industrial or commercial coating activity and associated degreasing activities performing:

(a) the coating of road vehicles as defined in Directive 70/156/EEC, or part of them, carried out as part of vehicle repair, conservation or decoration outside of manufacturing installations, or

(b) the original coating of road vehicles as defined in Directive 70/156/EEC or part of them with refinishing-type materials, where this is carried out away from the original manufacturing line, or

(c) the coating of trailers (including semi-trailers) (category O).

web-fed

means that the material to be printed is fed to the machine from a reel as distinct from separate sheets.

winding wire coating

means any coating activity of metallic conductors used for winding the coils in transformers and motors etc.

wood and plastic

lamination

means any activity to adhere together wood or plastic to produce laminated products.

wood impregnation

means any activity giving a loading of preservative in timber.