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The Solvents Industry Group (SIG) of the American Chemistry Council represents the leading producers of oxygenated and hydrocarbon organic solvents. The SIG was created in 1995 to address health, safety, and environmental issues that affect producers, distributors, and users of modern hydrocarbon and oxygenated solvents. The SIG supports scientific research, participates in regulatory activities pertaining to solvents, and works to ensure that solvents continue to be recognized as important components of a wide range of products that help make our lives safer and healthier, while meeting the needs of today’s environmentally conscious world.

Solvents are chemicals that have dramatically enhanced modern day living in the United States and around the world. Solvents are used in a diversity of applications including paints and coatings, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, household and industrial cleaners, and inks. Solvents provide solutions for many challenges of modern business and home life.

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	what's new? See the Solvents Industry Group’s comments on the California Air Resources Board’s Proposed Amendments to the Regulation for Reducing Emissions from Consumer Products and Revisions to Test Method 310 Click here to read our comments on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Interim Guidelines for Setting Odor-Based Effects Screening Levels Now available! Reactivity WHITE PAPER on the role of reactivity as part of effective ozone control strategies