Guangdong will issue a polycarbonate drinking bucket standard

The expensive brand new polycarbonate drums have always been one of the major costs for water companies. This has also led to the use of recycled materials in 60% of the polycarbonate barrels in the Pearl River Delta. In this regard, the local standards of the “Polycarbonate (PC) drinking water barrel” declared by the Guangdong Provincial Drinking Water Industry Association to the provincial quality supervision department will be introduced within the year. Luo Tan, president of the Guangdong Provincial Drinking Water Association, said that the new standard strictly stipulates that no industrial raw materials or waste plastic buckets can be used, nor does it specify the useful life of the barrels. The standard is based on the standards of the current large companies and the European Union's standards for polycarbonate drum products. It will change the history of using recycled materials to make cheap barrels to save costs and participate in market competition; the cost of new barrels will make It is even more difficult to operate a poorly-operated factory. As a result, more small-scale plants are withdrawn from the market. According to experts from the China Epoxy Resin Industry Association, new standards for water tanks will be introduced to change the history of “recycling drums”. The expert said that polycarbonate, like epoxy resin, uses bisphenol A as its raw material.

The cost of buckets accounts for a large part of the total cost of bottled water production companies. Consumers use 18.9 liters of water for daily use. If they use high-quality polycarbonate (PC) as the raw material, the barrels produced by the injection blow process are currently priced at About 40 yuan, and barrels produced by the extrusion blow process is about 32 yuan. Normally, each barrel will be scrapped after 100 repeated uses. The life of a new barrel is only 2 years. Some small and medium-sized enterprises and production barrel manufacturers have to threaten consumers' health by saving costs, recycling some scrapped buckets, or using buckets made from waste bottles, discs, and discarded discs. Therefore, after the introduction of the standard, the production costs of SMEs will increase rapidly. New standards of water quality are gradually implemented to promote water enterprises to increase equipment and increase spending. Although the new national standard for drinking water was implemented last year, the impact on the industry has not yet been reflected so quickly, and it will surface from 2008. The new national standard is the “minimum standard” for the water industry. Any other standards for bottled purified water, mineral water, and natural water purification and local standards must be formulated on the premise of conforming to the new national standard; many items added to the new national standard are exactly the same. Some bottled water standards do not provide, so it is necessary to make corresponding changes.