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 draft in ballot.

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.

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)

T 263 "Identification of wood and fibers from conifers" (October 30, 2015)


T 804 "Compression test of fiberboard shipping containers" (October 31, 2015)


T 258 "Basic density and moisture content of pulpwood" (November 2, 2015)


T 545 "Cross-machine grammage profile measurement (gravimetric method)" (November 6, 2015)


T 537 "Dirt count in paper and paperboard (optical character recognition - OCR)" (November 9, 2015)


T 809 "Flat crush of corrugating medium (CMT test)" (November 23, 2015)