STAR - July 2025 - New or Revised Standards, TIPs, and Useful Methods

One TAPPI Standard has been approved as an American National Standard

The following TAPPI Standard has been approved as an American National Standard by the ANSI Board of Standards Review:

Approved revision of current American National Standards:
T 1500 gl-25 Optical measurements terminology (related to appearance evaluation of paper)

Notice of the approval of the TAPPI Standard as an American National Standard was placed in the July 18th, 2025, edition of ANSI Standards Action.

Check here the list of TAPPI Useful Methods (UMs) recently published:

UM 411 – Approximate Opacity of Paper Using 45°/0° Geometry Reflectometer
UM 566 – Wetting shipping sack paper for testing
UM 822 – Green peel bond procedure at the corrugator

We extend our special appreciation to the following volunteers who served as Working Group Chairs in the recently published reviews of TAPPI Useful Methods:

Michael Lakins – WGC for UM 411
Christopher Czyryca – WGC for UM 566
James Moody – WGC for UM 822

Special note: Documents appearing in the TAPPI online version of the Standards and TIPs are updated once a month (usually around the 30th). So it is possible that there is a delay between the publication announcement and the posting online. If you are a subscriber to the online access to Standards and TIPs and you are in a hurry for new documents that have not yet been posted, you can send a request for TIPs to tip@tappi.org or for Standards to standards@tappi.org.