Indiana Administrative Code
Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION
Article 8 - VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND RULES
Rule 2 - Surface Coating Emission Limitations
Section 2-6 - Metal furniture coating operations
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-17-3-4; IC 13-17-3-11
Affected: IC 13-12-3-1; IC 13-14-8-3; IC 13-14-8-7; IC 13-17-1-1
Sec. 6.
(a) This section is applicable to surface coating of any furniture made of metal or any metal part that will be assembled with other metal, wood, fabric, plastic, or glass parts to form a furniture piece.
(b) No owner or operator of a metal furniture coating line subject to this section may cause, allow, or permit the discharge into the atmosphere of any VOC in excess of thirty-six hundredths (0.36) kilogram per liter of coating (three and zero-tenths (3.0) pounds per gallon) excluding water, delivered to the coating applicator from prime and topcoat or single coat operations.
(c) On and after April 1, 2011, the owner or operator of a metal furniture coating line in which the total actual VOC emissions from all metal furniture coating operations, including related cleaning activities, are equal to or exceed fifteen (15) pounds per day, before add-on controls, located in Lake County or Porter County, shall comply with the following:
Coating Type | Maximum VOC Content | |
Baked | Air Dried | |
Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating, excluding water, as applied | Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating, excluding water, as applied | |
General, one component | 0.275 (2.3) | 0.275 (2.3) |
General, multicomponent | 0.275 (2.3) | 0.340 (2.8) |
Extreme high gloss | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.340 (2.8) |
Extreme performance | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Heat resistant | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Metallic | 0.420 (3.5) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Pretreatment coatings | 0.420 (3.5) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Solar absorbent | 0.360 (3.0) | 0.420 (3.5) |
Coating Type | Maximum VOC Content | |
Baked | Air Dried | |
Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating solids, as applied | Kilograms/liter (pounds/gallon) of coating solids, as applied | |
General, one component | 0.40 (3.3) | 0.40 (3.3) |
General, multicomponent | 0.40 (3.3) | 0.55 (4.5) |
Extreme high gloss | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.55 (4.5) |
Extreme performance | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Heat resistant | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Metallic | 0.80 (6.7) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Pretreatment coatings | 0.80 (6.7) | 0.80 (6.7) |
Solar absorbent | 0.61 (5.1) | 0.80 (6.7) |
(d) The following coating types are exempt from the emission limitations in this section: