ENVIROPEEL SYSTEMS - SETTING NEW STANDARDS

摘要

Increasingly, products and services have to meet recognised standards in order to take their place in the modern world. And, since we now recognise that selling sweets laced with opium, or train sets with 240-volt live rails was probably misguided, it is generally accepted that such controls are a 'good thing' and a necessary part of commerce. Standards work on many levels; they govern the toxicity of products released into the environment and the quality of the food that we eat. Internationally, they allow companies and governments to work with common goals and materials and, in their most basic form, they govern such things as surface preparation and the size of the blast media we use. They are also used to differentiate between products. Standards for a given product type, for example, allow an Engineer to judge what is best for his project, what level of protection he can expect, how long the work will take, how long it will last-all based on known criteria, published standards and his own experience.