Check here the list of TAPPI Technical Information Papers (TIPs) recently published:

TIP 0416-08 Guidelines for replacement of generating bank tubes with expanded joints in two-drum boilers (Revised)

TIP 1101-08 Basis Weight Dynamic Correlation Method (Newly Issued)

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

Michael Lykins – WGC for TIP 0416-08
Lu Anthos – WGC for TIP 1101-08

Please note that the documents available for purchase on tappi.org and the Standards License Platform are updated monthly, usually around the 30th of each month. As a result, there may be a delay between the announcement of publication and their availability online. However, if you are subscribed to online access for Standards and TIPs and urgently require new documents that have not yet been posted, you can submit a request for TIP's to tip@tappi.org or Standards to standards@tappi.org.

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 804 om-20      Compression test of fiberboard shipping containers (April 3, 2024)
T 830 om-18      Ink rub test of containerboard and corrugated board (April 20, 2024)
T 843 om-20      Fluted edge crush of corrugating medium (rigid support method) (April 3, 2024)
T 845 om-20      Wet pin adhesion of corrugated board by selective separation (April 3, 2024)

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.

Listed below are TAPPI TIPs that were recently submitted to the Working Group for review. The date when the Work Item was opened is shown for each TIP, as well as the Subject Category under which the TIP is assigned and the Working Group Chair's (WGC) name. The target completion date for the review of each TIP is one year after the opening of the Work Item. 

0304 Process Control and Quality Assurance

March 19, 2024 TIP 0304-53 Tests for corrugator roll wear WGC: Working Group Chair Needed

0304 Process Control and Quality Assurance

March 19, 2024 TIP 0304-75 Checking the flute depth of corrugating rolls WGC: Working Group Chair Needed

If you would like to participate in the Working Group to review any of these TIPs, please write to tip@tappi.org.

Propose a New Standard or Technical Information Paper (TIP)

Getting started is easy. Do you have just a general idea for a Standard, or are you farther along and have a substantial draft? If you just have a general idea for a Standard or TIP, complete the New Idea Submission form. TAPPI will review your idea and identify an appropriate committee or group to work on your suggestion. If you are further along, send an initial draft to standards@tappi.org. From there, the TAPPI Standards Manager will guide you through the appropriate process to finalize and approve the new document.

This TIP is a general guide for checking bearing wear on the corrugator. Bearing clearance can be simply defined as the distance between a roll journal and its supporting bearing or the amount of “free play” in a bearing. To measure bearing clearances on a machine requires a dial indicator or gage and holder with magnetic base and a pry or lift bar.

Fig. 4. Proper placement of the magnetic base.

Date of Publication: February 29, 2024

Purchasing Link: Corrugator bearing clearance checks and their impact

Working Group Members:
John Buzzell
Gerald Saballus
Jeff Gebauer 

If you would like to share your experience with Standards, TIPs or ISO TC 6, please write to standards@tappi.org and the TAPPI Standards team will be happy to interview you.

Volunteers for the following working groups of Technical Information Papers (TIPs) are needed.

All Working Groups of TIPs require a minimum of 3 TAPPI members from 3 different companies in order to review a TIP. The following TIPs do not have an assigned Working Group Chair (WGC) to initiate the review:

Working Group Chairs Needed:

TIP 0304-53 Tests for corrugator roll wear
TIP 0304-75 Checking the flute depth of corrugating rolls
TIP 0305-53 Machinery considerations and selection: yoked scoring slotting section
TIP 0306-15 Identifying anilox volume measuring equipment
TIP 0306-18 Cleaning anilox rolls: procedures and options
TIP 0402-38 Best practice guidelines for detecting and mitigating waterside cracking (stress-assisted corrosion) in power and recovery boilers
TIP 0404-26 Paper machine clothing performance analysis
TIP 0416-03 Water quality and monitoring requirements for paper mill boilers operating with high purity feedwater
TIP 0416-06 Keys to successful chemical cleaning of boilers
TIP 0416-07 Evaluating reverse osmosis for treating makeup to the boiler feedwater in a pulp and paper mill
TIP 0416-13 Water treatment-related opportunities for energy conservation in a paper mill powerhouse
TIP 0420-14 Guide for increasing the maximum allowable working pressure of cast iron, ASME constructed paper machine dryers
TIP 0508-08 Thick stock and broke screening systems, evaluation, inspection, and maintenance

Working Group Members Needed:

TIP 0304-53 Tests for corrugator roll wear
TIP 0304-75 Checking the Flute Depth of Corrugating Rolls
TIP 0305-53 Machinery considerations and selection:  yoked scoring slotting section
TIP 0402-17 Weld repairs on new suction roll shells
TIP 0402-38 Best practice guidelines for detecting and mitigating waterside cracking (stress-assisted corrosion) in power and recovery boilers
TIP 0404-43 Water permeability of press fabrics
TIP 0508-09 Paper machine approach (head box) screening systems evaluation, inspection, and maintenance

If you would like to join a Working Group of a TIP, please write to tip@tappi.org for more information.

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.

T 1212 sp-21     Light sources for evaluating papers including those containing fluorescent whitening agents
T 1215 sp-21     The determination of instrumental color differences
T 267 cm-15       Compression wood identification in pulpwood
T 272 sp-21        Forming handsheets for reflectance testing of pulp (sheet machine procedure)
T 444 sp-21        Silver tarnishing by paper and paperboard
T 454 om-21      Turpentine test for voids in glassine and greaseproof papers
T 465 sp-21        Static creasing of paper for water vapor transmission tests
T 515 om-20      Visual grading and color matching of paper
T 572 sp-21        Accelerated pollutant aging of printing and writing paper by pollution chamber exposure apparatus
T 573 sp-21        Accelerated temperature aging of printing and writing paper by dry oven exposure apparatus 

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.

The system for review and development of TAPPI Standards requires an announcement of review dates so that any interested TAPPI parties may access the drafts, submit comments, and/or join the Standard-Specific Interest Group (SSIG) to cast an official vote.

Listed below are the Standards that will be up for review in 2024. The date indicated is the target date on which the draft will be distributed to the Standard-Specific Interest Group (SSIG) for that particular Standard.

T 401 om-20 Fiber analysis of paper and paperboard (October 7, 2024)
T 480 om-20 Specular gloss of paper and paperboard at 75 degrees (October 7, 2024)
T 511 om-20 Folding endurance of paper (MIT tester) (October 7, 2024)
T 524 om-20 Color of paper and paperboard (45/0, C/2) (October 7, 2024)
T 549 om-20 Coefficients of static and kinetic friction of uncoated writing and printing paper by use of the horizontal plane method (October 7, 2024)
T 553 om-20 Alkalinity of paper as calcium carbonate (alkaline reserve of paper) (October 7, 2024)
T 558 om-20 Surface wettability and absorbency of sheeted materials using an automated contact angle tester (October 7, 2024)
T 567 om-20 Determination of effective residual ink concentration (ERIC) by infrared reflectance measurement (October 7, 2024)
T 580 om-20 Thickness (caliper) of towel, tissue, napkin and facial products (October 7, 2024)
T 836 om-20 Bending stiffness, four point method (October 7, 2024)
T 233 cm-15 Fiber length of pulp by classification (October 20, 2024)
T 267 cm-15 Compression wood identification in pulpwood (October 20, 2024)
T 808 cm-15 Flat crush test of corrugated board (flexible beam method) (October 20, 2024)

Any interested individuals who wish to be part of the voting for any Standard should send a message to standards@tappi.org and request voting membership on the corresponding SSIG, prior to the target ballot date, if possible. Anyone who joins the SSIG before the target balloting date will receive a notice of the ballot.

Next TC 6 Meeting(s) – Need to pre-register to attend. If you are a member of any working group (WG), please think about attending at least one of these meetings, or if you can’t please inform interim HOD of any important issues you may have.

TC 6 (Paper, board and pulps)
Proposed Dates: November 25, 2024 – November 29, 2024, Proposed Location: Beijing

TC 6/SC 2 (Test methods and quality specifications for paper and board)
Proposed Dates: November 25, 2024 – November 29, 2024, Proposed Location: Beijing

If you would like to know more or join the U.S. TAG to ISO TC 6, please write to isotc6@tappi.org.

...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 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 SSIG Join Page. When you click on a Subject Category, it will display links to related SSIGs.

For details on these commonly used acronyms in the development of TAPPI Standards and TIPs, please see the Standards Guidelines and the TIP Guidelines, or send your questions to standards@tappi.org.

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

Details on how to search and order TAPPI Standards, TIPs, and Useful Methods can be found on the TAPPI website’s Search and Order page.

All individual TIPs or Standards are available for electronic or paper delivery. For electronic delivery, the documents are e-mailed in PDF format.  Hard copy documents can be mailed or faxed, but shipping and handling costs will apply.

For Individual TIPs, order Item Number: 0108____ (Insert TIP number)
For Individual Standards, order Item Number: 0104T____ (Insert Standard number)
For individual Useful Methods, order item number: 0104UM_____ (Insert UM number)

List price: $53; TAPPI member price: $35. There are no shipping or handling charges for electronic documents.

The TAPPI CD of Standards, TIPs, and UMs has been discontinued since 2021.  An Individual or Company License for access to the continually updated collection of Standards, TIPs, and UMs via the web is the best way to always have a current set of documents accessible. A print-on-demand version of either the Standards, TIPs, or UMs, current and updated as of the date printed, is also available. 

For information and quotes on company licenses, contact TAPPI Press (press@tappi.org) or +1-770-209-7277. For regular orders (including individual online licenses), contact Member Connection at 1-800-332-8686 (US), 1-800-446-9431 (Canada), or +1-770-446-1400 (international), or order online at www.tappi.org.

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Standards Guidelines
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TIPs Guidelines
https://www.tappi.org/globalassets/documents/tappi-tip-guidelines-revised-october-2019_final.pdf