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 need either a Working Group Chair (WGC) to initate the review or additional members of the Working Group (WG): 

0304 Process Control & Quality Assurance

TIP 0304-24 Calibration and maintenance of the burst tester WGC: James Pauw
TIP 0304-72 Critical properties to consider when unitizing WGC: Greg McKinney
TIP 0304-25 Understanding formaldehyde management WGC: TBD
TIP 0304-68 Improved techniques to measure corrugator glue machine meter gaps WGC: TBD
TIP 0304-07 Warp in corrugated board WGC: TBD

0305 Production

TIP 0305-54 Material handling considerations for flexo folder gluers WGC: John Buzzell

0402 - Corrosion and Materials Engineering

TIP 0402-32 Guidelines for thermal spray coatings installed to prevent corrosion in pulp mill process equipment WGC: Michael Lykin
TIP 0402-34 Paper machine reel-spool journals: guidelines for crack testing and repair or replacement WGC: TBD

0416 - Energy, Recovery and Recaust

04/14/2020 - TIP 0416-08 Guidelines for replacement of generating bank tubes with expanded joints in two-drum boilers WGC: Michael Lykin

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