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 240 Consistency (concentration) of pulp suspensions (January 20, 2019)
T 449 Bacteriological examination of paper and paperboard (February 28, 2019)
T 453 Effect of dry heat on properties of paper and board (January 17, 2019)
T 515 Visual grading and color matching of paper (January 17, 2019)
T 520 Curl of gummed flat paper (January 26, 2019)
T 524 Color of paper and paperboard (45/0, C/2) (January 17, 2019)
T 527 Color of paper and paperboard (d/0, C/2) (January 17, 2019)
T 544 Aging of paper and board with moist heat (February 28, 2019)
T 545 Cross-machine grammage profile measurement (gravimetric method) (January 20, 2019)
T 572 Accelerated pollutant aging of printing and writing paper by pollution chamber exposure apparatus (January 17, 2019)
T 648 Viscosity of coating clay slurry (February 28, 2019)
T 702 Rheological measurements for characterization of polyolefins: low-density polyethylene (LDPE) for extrusion coating (February 22, 2019)

The TAPPI Standards regulations require public review of standards that are up for ballot. Send a message to standards@tappi.org if you want to request a copy of the draft in ballot. If you would like to participate in the SSIGs that review and vote on the Standards, please contact TAPPI Standards Department at standards@tappi.org.