A Greener View from Farrow & Ball

The Farrow & Ball paint range is now even better for you, your family, your home and the environment because our new eco-friendly formulations have been created without any compromise on performance or the quality of the ingredients we use.

By significantly reducing the solvent in our products, all our eco friendly paint finishes and most of our primers and undercoats are classified as having a zero* VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) content, and this is denoted by the symbol featured on the tin.

VOCs are present in many household products. In paint the VOCs are solvents, such as white spirit, which evaporate into the atmosphere while paint is drying. These VOCs pollute the environment and potentially have a detrimental effect on health.

The exceptional new Farrow & Ball finishes are listed below:

• Eco Exterior Eggshell
• Eco Dead Flat
• Eco Full Gloss
• Eco Exterior Primer & Undercoat
  
• Eco Interior Wood Primer & Undercoat
  
• Eco Wall / Ceiling Primer & Undercoat
• Eco Metal Primer
• Eco Stain Block Primer
  
• Eco Eggshell Varnish
• Eco Dead Flat Varnish

They combine the environmental qualities of a water-based system with the performance benefits of the traditional oil-based system. As a result, they have comparable performance to their oil-based counterparts but with reduced drying and recoat time and no odour.

There is no change to our policy of using naturally occurring pigments including iron oxides and umbers, as well as other natural ingredients such as china clay, lime putty and linseed oil. The purity of these ingredients is at the root of achieving the unmistakable look of Farrow & Ball. And, just like before, we don’t use harmful ingredients such as APE and Xylene.

Our environmental effort extends throughout the manufacturing process and has been recognised by the award of ISO 14001:2004 certification. At every stage of our work, from raw materials to energy use, waste management and distribution, we do our best to act in an environmentally responsible manner.

We continue to resist the industry-wide move to plastic containers and remain faithful to our traditional tin packaging, which has a high recycled content and is easily recyclable. Look out for the new Eco Friendly label on our tins.

For customers still preferring to use traditional oil-based formulations, these will be available to order until 2010, subject to availability.

*zero VOC as tested to US environmental protection agency standards

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