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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 1219 sp-17 Storage of paper samples for optical measurements and color matching (February 24, 2022) 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 on any SSIGs to review and vote on Standards, please click here or contact standards@tappi.org. General Announcements
Focus on Lime Kilns at this Get Answers to Questions on Lime Kilns and Recausticizing: The Forgotten Part of a Kraft Mill at this live "Ask the Expert" Event!
TAPPI Connect’s Ask The Expert Series Continues on Friday, February 11 Lime Kilns and Recausticizing: The Forgotten Part of a Kraft Mill This live online event will be led by experts Peter Hart, who specializes in pulping, bleaching, evaporators, chemical recovery, recausticization, refining, and wet end chemistry, and is currently Director of Fiber Science and Innovation at WestRock, and Glenn Hanson III, who currently works as Pyro Technical Sales Support for Metso Outotec in the North and Central Americas Region. This two-hour live Q&A event will focus on addressing issues and questions about Lime Kilns, the operation of the calcium cycle, and this area of the kraft mill that is often overlooked in reference materials. Hart and Hanson are both editors, along with Richard Manning, of Lime Kilns and Recausticizing: The Forgotten Part of a Kraft Mill, a recently-released TAPPI PRESS book. During this live event, you can post your questions on the Open Forum feed. Hart and Hanson will respond as quickly as possible. If they do not have an opportunity to respond to your question during the event, the question will be addressed within the next week. This live session will also be archived and accessible after the event. To attend, all you need to do is log in at 10:00am (or any time before it ends at noon) on Friday, Feb 11. Can't Think of a Question to Ask? Get the Book, too! STAR of the Month
 Sylvie Vervoort is a Research Scientist at The Dow Chemical Company in Plastics R&D in The Netherlands. She holds a Master of Chemical Engineering Sciences from KU Leuven (Belgium) and obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Mines ParisTech at Cemef (Sophia-Antipolis, France). Before joining Dow in 2006, she worked at Unilever as a post-doctoral Marie Curie Fellow. She is an expert in the field of rheology and has applied this to a diverse range of materials including food products, thermoset composites and plastics. She's also passionate about sustainability and recycling.
Read More... SSIG Members Needed
The Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs) for the following Standards are in need of additional members. These groups may or may not have ballots currently open. All Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIG) require a minimum of 10 members in order to ballot and vote on a draft of a method. The following test methods do not have the required minimum number of members to initiate a ballot: Chemical Properties T 434 cm-10 Acid-soluble iron in paper Automatic review - 10/2019 Current SSIG Count = 9
T 493 cm-10 Identification and determination of melamine resin in paper Automatic review - 10/2019 Current SSIG Count = 9
T 621 cm-10 Analysis of rosin Automatic review - 10/2019 Current SSIG Count = 9
T 628 cm-10 Analysis of rosin size Automatic review - 10/2019 Current SSIG Count = 9
Fillers and Pigments
Sulfite and Semichemical Pulping
Participating in a SSIG is free and open to anyone interested. Join now! If no progress is made on balancing these SSIGs, then the respective methods may be considered for withdrawal at the next Q&SMC meeting. If you have an interest in becoming a member of either of these SSIGs please contact standards@tappi.org. or visit tappi.org/JoinStandards. U.S. TAG to ISO TC 6
New member: Charles Romano has been added to the US TAG in the areas of ink, coatings and deinkability. He is a research scientist/engineer at Kodak in Rochester, NY. Todd Popson has been named Convenor of WG 3 (optical properties) for a 3-year term starting Jan. 2022. ISO TC 6 (pulp, paper and board) is investigating the need for certifications related to sustainability and the circular economy. Mary Kombolias is a US Expert to TG 2 (Identification of Organizations - Environmental issues) which is performing a mapping exercise looking at the various certifications, labels and bodies that already exist. This will be used to evaluate what role TC6 can play in this area as many issues surround recyclability and sustainability. Please contact Mary mkombolias@gmail.com to participate or comment on this work. If you would like to know more or join the U.S. TAG to ISO TC 6, please write to isotc6@tappi.org. M.Todd Popson Did You Know
... that to participate in the balloting process for TAPPI Standards you must sign up for the Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs)? Drafts are available for anyone... that to participate in the balloting process for TAPPI Standards you must sign up for the Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs)? Drafts are available for anyone to review, but to vote and comment you must be a member of the SSIG. Each Standard has its own SSIG – so you have to sign up for each Standard that you have an interest in. Links to all of the SSIGs (by subject category) can be found on the Subject Category for Standards web page. Visit tappi.org/JoinStandards to join now. Acronyms You May Need to Know
TIP = Technical Information Paper Q&SMC = Quality and Standards Management Committee SSIG = Standard-Specific Interest Group SARG = Standards Advisory Review Group WI = Work Item WG = Working Group WGC = Working Group Chair om = Official Method pm = Provisional Method sp = Standard Practice cm = Classical Method ss = Standard Specification sg = Standard Guideline gl = Standard Glossary wd = Withdrawn Standard UM = Useful Method Searching and Ordering TAPPI Standards, TIPs, and Useful Methods
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