Boysen Knoxout
Boysen ECO friendly paints
What is Leed?
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building rating system created by individuals representing all segments of the building industry who are members of the United States Green Building Council. It is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings, and seeks to establish common standards of measurement, recognize environmental leadership on the building industry, and raise consumer awareness of green building benefits. The program awards points to various aspects of a design project, including paint. With enough points, a project can be LEED Certified.
As green buildings gain momentum in the Philippines, Boysen Paints is showcasing a line of green paints that will help professional architects quality for points in Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), an internationally accepted benchmark for green building.
For more information, go to www.usgbc.org/leed.
How is this done?
Boysen Paints are 100% Lead Free
In keeping with the company’s commitment to produce safer and more environmentally friendly paint products, all Boysen paint products coming out of its factories, whether water or oil-based, are lead free. Boysen voluntarily phased out its last product that contained lead which is the Red Lead Primer in 2007 and has worked steadily since then to ensure that all of its paint products now and in the future will not use raw materials with lead content such as lead or chromate based pigments or lead driers.
Boysen Paints was also the first Filipino paint manufacturer to introduce mercury free latex paint in the country back in the late 1970s. Since then, Boysen has been an innovator in introducing environmentally friendly paint technologies on a national and regional level. It was the first company in Southeast Asia to introduce a water-based metal primer (Boysen® PrimeguardTM) and a water-based acrylic epoxy paint (Boysen® Acqua EpoxyTM).
In line with new international standards on volatile organic compound (VOC) levels for paint, Boysen has introduced low VOC paints such as Boysen Healthy Home with Microban® antibacterial protection and VirtuosoTM Silk TouchTM, the first paint in the world with both Teflon® non-stick technology and Microban®. In 2009, Boysen introduced KNOxOUTTM, the first air cleaning paint in the world with CristalActiv photocatalytic technology that effectively transforms painted areas into an air purifying surfaces that helps protect people from the ill health effects of air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Pacific Paint (Boysen) Philippines, Inc. and its contract manufacturer Atlantic Coatings, Inc. are the first and only paint companies in the Philippines to be accredited Responsible Care®, the global chemical industry’s environment, health and safety initiative to drive continuous improvement in performance in these areas. Its manufacturing facility is also the only plant in the country that is ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, and OHSAS 18001:2007 certified; signifying that the plant’s quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems are in accordance with the highest international standards.
In the LEED rating system, points can be gained by adhering to certain green building standards. There are several ways to earn points. BOYSEN has many products that are LEED Compliant that can help qualify the entire project being LEED certified.
Things To Know!
Things To Know » Applications
Applications
KNOxOUT will be of most benefit in areas with high NOx and VOC levels, such as car parks and buildings, houses and infrastructure in urban areas.
Air pollutant levels are usually higher in car parks due to dense vehicle traffic and enclosed spaces. KNOxOUT can make the air healthier for users and employees by decreasing the amount of NOx and VOCs.
According to studies done by the California Air Resources Board, residents near freeways are more susceptible to pollution related illnesses:
- Reduced lung function in children was associated with traffic density, especially trucks, within 1,000feet.
- Increased asthma hospitalizations among people living within 650 feet of heavy traffic and heavy truck volume.
- Asthma symptoms increased with proximity to roadways; risk was greatest within 300 feet.
- Asthma and bronchitis symptoms in children were associated with proximity to high traffic in a community with good overall regional air quality.
- Medical visits were higher among children living within 550 feet of heavy traffic.
- Diesel exhaust contains fine particles, a type of pollution linked with early deaths among people with heart disease. Some research has shown that heavy exposure can trigger heart attacks, and that long term exposure contributes to plaque build-up in arteries.
Painting buildings, homes and road infrastructure near roads with heavy vehicle traffic can help protect the health of people living, working and playing in these areas.
The Need for Cleaner Air
Polluted Air = Shorter Life
Scientists say human beings can live without food for up to two weeks, without water for up to three or four days but only up to five minutes without air. But while we need air to sustain life, modern life has put a lot of things in the air that are not good for us.
Vehicular traffic and its resulting air pollution is something that most people living in urban areas accept as a fact of life. But while sitting in traffic may test one’s patience and raise blood pressure every now and then, the health effects from exposure to air pollution are much more serious:
- According to the World Health Organization, air pollution kills 3 times more people each year than automobile accidents. (http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update17.htm)
- A study by the European Commission estimates that air pollution reduces life expectancy of an EU citizen by almost nine months. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4283295.stm
- In a heavily polluted city like Metro Manila, 1 of every 8 premature deaths is caused by air pollution. (Philippine Environment Monitor 2007)
- Every breath we take of polluted urban air actually makes us live less than we’re supposed to. The effects of air pollution on children are even worse:
- Children spend more time outdoors and are more active outdoors than adults. For their body size, children breathe faster and inhale several times more air – polluted air - than adults.
- Studies in California found that children living near freeways were more likely to have reduced lung function and develop asthma and bronchitis symptoms. (www.ioe.ucla.edu/news/article.asp?parentid=1797)
- A study in New York found that mothers who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution during pregnancy had children with lower IQs. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720111453.htm
Unfortunately, many health effects are seen in people exposed to levels of air pollution that are lower than the current National Ambient Air Quality Standard set by the EPA. In other words, new research shows that levels of air pollution currently considered safe may actually be harmful to some people, including exercising children.
Cleaner Air = Longer Life
Every little bit counts in the fight against air pollution. A study in Europe has found that even very small cuts in pollution can benefit health, and a recent Harvard University study found that people living in cities where air pollution decreased in recent decades saw their life expectancy increase an average of five months as a result of cleaner air.
One Wall One World
Air pollution is everybody’s problem.
We have one world and we breathe the same air; therefore we have a common responsibility to improve its quality. Every time we drive a car or ride a bus, we add things to the air that harm people.
But we don’t need to only be a part of the problem, we can be part of the solution.
Painting a wall with KNOxOUT is one of the few ways we have today to take out some of the NOx that we put in the air.
We’ve always painted to protect our houses, with KNOxOUT we can now paint to help protect people from breathing harmful air.
Painting the walls of our house could help protect our family. Painting the walls of our school could help protect our children. Painting the walls around our neighborhood could help protect our community.
If everyone in every community could paint one wall, we could help protect our town, our city, our world.
One person, one wall.
One wall, one world.
Be part of a life-enhancing movement
To protect people and the planet.
To find out more about air pollution, KNOxOUT and which companies and citizens are stepping up to clean our air, check out www.onewalloneworld.com
If you would like to know how much NOx your vehicle emits, click here.
Painting An Air Pollution Solution
Serious health problems caused by air pollution plague urban areas around the world. According to the World Health Organization, 3 million people die from the effects of air pollution each year. This figure is three times the 1 million deaths associated with automobile accidents. In the United States alone, approximately 4 percent of deaths can be attributed to air pollution, this equals the number ofing deaths from caused by breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.1 A study by the European Commission calculated that air pollution reduces life expectancy by an average of almost nine months across the European Union2.
Among the principal air pollutants are nitrogen oxides (NOx), a group of highly reactive gases containing various amounts of nitrogen and oxygen. NOx has severe environmental and health effects. For example, it can cause major pulmonary problems on its own yet when combined with other compounds it can form ground level ozone, smog and particulate matter. NOx is also a precursor for acid rain, and contributes to global warming.
NOx comes primarily from vehicle exhausts. Although catalytic converters can now take out some pollutants from vehicle exhausts, NOx cannot be completely eliminated by such technology. In order to reduce NOX levels, an external mechanism to break down NOx after its release into the atmosphere.
New developments in nanotechnology have produced the most unlikely weapon to reduce NOx and air pollutant levels – paint. Working with Cristal Global, the world’s leading ultrafine titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer, Boysen has developed KNOxOUT. A revolutionary paint that converts noxious air pollutants into harmless substances in an environmentally safe process called photocatalysis.
The technology used in KNOxOUT has been proven effective in a series of European trials conducted by Photocatalytic Innovative Coatings Applications for De-Pollution Assessment (PICADA), an EU funded consortium of which Cristal Global’s subsidiary Millenium Chemicals was the provider of ultrafine TiO2, as well as by Cristal Global itself. After a tunnel in Milan was covered with photocatalytic paint, the level of air pollutants inside was dramatically reduced (NOx by 67%, sulfur oxides [SOx] by 47%, and particulate matter [PM2.5] by 47%). In another trial, a 300 sq. meter wall in Sir John Cass School in London was coated with photocatalytic paint, which cleaned approximately 10,000 cubic meter of air per day, equivalent to the exhausts of 2,000 cars that passed by the school. A trial conducted in a Paris car park, showed close to a 90% reduction in NOx levels with photocatalytic paint. This study also proved that the technology can work under florescent lighting.
Boysen Paints is currently conducting the world’s largest depolluting paint trial at an urban rail transit station along the busiest avenue in the Manila Metropolitan Area . The trial involves painting over 5,200 sq. meters with close to 1,000 liters of KNOxOUT. This trial will further confirm the depolluting results of the European trials. Given the high amount of sunlight, humidity and air pollution in the vicinity of the trial, this area is ideal for photocatalysis (see box).
KNOxOUT not only meets the VOC limits set by international paint ecolabeling standards, but by effectively transforming painted areas into air purifying mechanisms constantly fighting pollution to improve air quality, Boysen KNOxOUT establishes a new paradigm for green paints – an ecoactive paint. A study in Europe has found that even small cuts in pollution can benefit health. A recent Harvard University study found people living in cities, with decreased air pollution in recent decades, saw life expectancy increase an average of five months due to clearner air. By providing a weapon to fight air pollution, Boysen KNOxOUT provides an innovative and inexpensive way to achieve cleaner air and better health for everyone.
FAQS
- Why should I worry about air pollution?
According to the World Health Organization, 3 million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution every year. A study by the European Commission estimates that air pollution reduces the life expectancy of an EU citizen by almost nine months. And in a heavily polluted city like Metro Manila, 1 of every 8 premature deaths is caused by air pollution.
- What is NOx?
NOx are highly reactive gases containing nitrogen and oxygen. It is mostly generated by vehicle emissions, and has serious health and environmental effects. It forms smog (ground level ozone) and small particulate matter that can cause respiratory problems; and also leads to acid rain.
- How does KNOxOUT clean the air?
Boysen KNOxOUT contains photocatalytic titanium dioxide, (TiO2), which upon exposure to light, transforms ordinary water vapor to free radicals that break down NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the two components of smog. Harmful NOx gas is converted to nitric acid that is rapidly neutralized by alkaline calcium carbonate particle in the paint, producing harmless quantities of calcium nitrate and negligible amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water.
- Does it really work?
The air cleaning technology used in KNOxOUT has been proven effective in a series of European trials in Milan, London and Paris. Photocatalytic coatings were applied in a tunnel, a school wall and an indoor carpark and all trials showed significant reductions in NOx.
In the world’s largest air cleaning paint trial, KNOxOUT was tested on a major Metrorail station along the busiest highway in Metro Manila. Early results of the trials show that the KNOxOUT painted on the station and surrounding embankment is estimated to be taking out 1.3 METRIC TONS of NOx per year, making the Metrorail station the biggest air cleaning station in the world! - Is KNOxOUT a low VOC environmentally friendly paint?
KNOxOUT has low VOC levels that would meet most international ecolabelling standards for flat water-based paint. But more than that, it has the potential to actually achieve a net VOC reduction in its lifetime – i.e. it will break down more VOCs in the air when dry than the small amounts of VOCs it has when wet.
While most ‘eco-friendly’ paints are focused on low VOC levels to minimize their environmental impact, KNOxOUT establishes a new paradigm for green paints – that of an eco-ACTive paint with Air Cleaning Technology that continuously works to reduce pollution and improve the environment. - Do I need special equipment to apply it? How much KNOxOUT would I need to cover a wall?
KNOxOUT is applied just like any ordinary water based paint – by brush, roller, or airless spray. You’ll need about 4 liters to cover an area of 25-30 square meters with one coat.
- What colors are KNOxOUT available in?
KNOxOUT can be applied in white or pastel shades tinted with colorants based on inorganic pigments (yellow oxide, red oxide, black oxide, chrome oxide green, cobalt blue, etc.) Deep shades of KNOxOUT and use of colorants with organic pigments are not recommended.
- Will the KNOxOUT paint film get dirty from pollution?
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