September 2015

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Listed below are TAPPI Standards that have recently gone out for ballot to the corresponding Standard-Specific Interest Group (SSIG). The date in parentheses is the closing date for voting.

T 218 sp-11 "Forming handsheets for reflectance testing of pulp (Büchner funnel procedure)" (September 21, 2015)

T 646 om-11 "Brightness of clay and other mineral pigments (45/0)" (September 25, 2015)

T 462 cm-06 "Castor-oil penetration test for paper" (September 28, 2015)

T 556 "Bending resistance of paper and paperboard by single-point bending methods" (October 3, 2015)

T 807 "Bursting strength of linerboard" (October 9, 2015)

WI 3035 "Specular gloss at 20 degrees (parallel beam method)" (October 15, 2015)

T 827 "Box blank dimensioning" (October 16, 2015)

T 564 "Transparent chart for the estimation of defect size" (October 23, 2015)

T 400 "Sampling and accepting a single lot of paper, paperboard, containerboard, or related product" (October 26, 2015)

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