What is BS EN 13999-1 - Adhesives about?
BS EN 13999-1 is the first part of the multi series standard that describes a conventional standard method for assessing potential emissions from adhesives after their application.
BS EN 13999-1 applies only to “solvent-free” and “low-solvent” adhesives as they are defined in EN 923:2005+A1:2008. The adhesives shall be applicable at room temperature.
Who is BS EN 13999-1 - Adhesives for?
BS EN 13999-1 on Adhesives is useful for:
- Manufacturers of furniture
- Sculptors of timber structures
- Carpenter
- Constructors of wooden houses
- Civil engineers
Why should you use BS EN 13999-1 - Adhesives?
Solvent-free and low-solvent adhesives may release considerable long-term emissions of volatile chemical compounds. Any documentation of emission characteristics requires a test method that includes all relevant and potentially hazardous substances.
BS EN 13999-1 provides methods and procedures for measuring the emission properties of low solvent or solvent free adhesives after its application.
BS EN 13999-1 provides methods that are essential for ensuring that testing is reliable and reproducible, that results are gained within a short period, and that carcinogenic or sensitizing volatile substances are significantly absent.
Using BS EN 13999-1 you can get help in determining the emission properties. By using BS EN 13999-1 you can manufacture better quality solvent free adhesives.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 13999-1:2013 supersedes BS EN 13999-1:2006. BS EN 13999-1:2013 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 3023:2006. These include:
- In general, the text is adapted to the new CLP Regulation No 1272/2008 [11].
- In 6.3, a new Note 2 is added, emphasizing the need that materials be tested under same conditions using the spreading techniques and the coat weights specific for each application.
- In 7.5, the sampling time is changed (the sampling time at 24 h is eliminated, a sampling time at 72 h is added), and a note is added concerning the possibility of other sampling times, e.g. after 28 days.
- “Specific cumulative emission” (previous 8.3.3) is eliminated. The examples from Note to Annex A are eliminated.
