July 2020

Standards Backlog

The TAPPI Standards team has started an intense and focused work to update the backlog on the review of Standards. Until September 18, 2020, the team is going to update all the late items that have any actions pending. The team members will be limiting the participation in other activities to get to focus on the backlog work. The U.S. TAG Administration to ISO/TC 6 has been temporarily transferred from Priscila Briggs to Shayne Nicholas until this focused work finishes. Final drafts of TIPs submitted to TAPPI, however, will continue to be published during this time.

STAR Member of the Month postponed

Due to the focused work on the Standards backlog, the section STAR Member of the Month, initially scheduled to begin this month, has been postponed to the September issue.

Priscila Briggs
Standards Manager

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