March 1, 2020 – The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a contract to Skyhaven to develop a safer paint and coating removal system. The Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting innovations in paint and coating removal products to replace harmful methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) chemicals widely used by industry and consumers. There are substantive health risks to workers and consumers who use methylene chloride and NMP-containing products, as well as to by-standers, include damage to the central nervous system, heart failure, liver toxicity, liver cancer, and lung cancer. For this reason, the EPA recently enacted a ban on May 28, 2019 prohibiting the manufacture and use of methylene chloride for consumer paint and coating removal products. Accordingly, there is a new market need to develop and introduce a safe paint and coating removal product that can work on a variety of coatings including latex, epoxy, and lacquers without damaging the underlying wood, metal, and synthetic substrates. Toward meeting this market need, a new product is being introduced by Skyhaven Systems, LLC that produces a chemically safe foam that covers the paint and coatings enabling the foam molecules to chemically break down the double bonds in the coatings removing them from the substrates.