Coating Material

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005462",
  "term": "Coating Material",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Elastomer, polymer, or prepolymer material applied as a thin layer to a textile web. Such materials include, but are not limited to, coatings, sealants, inks, and adhesives. Decorative, protective, or functional materials that consist only of acids, bases, or any combination of these substances are not considered coating material for the purposes of this subpart. Thinning materials also are not included in this definition of coating materials, but are accounted for separately.\n\n2. All inks, varnishes, adhesives, primers, solvents, reducers, and other coating materials applied to a substrate via a web coating line. Materials used to form a substrate are not considered coating materials.\n\n3. All liquid or semi-liquid materials (including the solids fraction of those materials as applied), such as inks, varnishes, adhesives (including hot melt adhesives or other hot melt materials), primers, solvents, reducers, and other materials applied to a substrate via a web coating line. Materials used to form a substrate or applied via vapor deposition, and dry abrasive materials deposited on top of a coated web, are not considered coating materials.",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 63.4371 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.3310 (CFR 2013)",
    "85 FR 41276; 40 CFR 63.331 (CFR 2021)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/coating-material/"
}