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ASBESTOS DETECTION

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ANNUAL ASBESTOS IMPORT AND CONSUMPTION

The graph shows the consumption of asbestos in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR between 1948 and 1993. It can be seen that asbestos consumption in Germany was still relatively high, especially in the 1970s, and that it decreased until the early 1980s, despite the bans and the known potential danger.

As a result of these restrictions (see timeline below), asbestos consumption in Germany fell well below 2,000 t in 1991. Today, asbestos is only used in Europe in a few exceptional cases: for example in the electrolysis of chlorine and soda. The amount of asbestos mined worldwide is currently between two and three million tonnes per year.

Source: BIA-Handbuch, 2001

Distribution of asbestos use between product groups :

The first graph shows a sharp increase in asbestos consumption in the former FRG from 1948 to 170,000 tonnes in 1965. After 1965, asbestos consumption stagnated at a high level of about 160,000 tonnes/year. Since 1980, increasing substitution efforts have led to a sharp decline in the consumption curve, so that asbestos consumption in 1989, for example, the year of German reunification, was around 50,000 tonnes (HVBG, 2003; DGUV, 2013). Since the ban on pulverised asbestos in 1979, a wide variety of asbestos regulations have been implemented, leading in 1993, in accordance with the Ordinance on Hazardous Substances, to a general ban on the manufacture of asbestos.
In 1993, this led to a general ban on the manufacture, use and marketing of asbestos, so that asbestos consumption in Germany fell to almost zero (HAGEMEYER et al., 2006). The second graph shows the products and product groups/categories in which asbestos imports were used in the manufacturing process in the former Federal Republic in the 1970s.

Source: BBSR, 2011; BG Bau, 2008

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