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 210 cm-13 Sampling and testing wood pulp shipments for moisture (July 31, 2025)
T 537 om-21 Dirt count in paper and paperboard (optical character recognition - OCR) (August 17, 2025)
T 556 om-21 Bending resistance of paper and paperboard by single-point bending methods (August 17, 2025)
T 563 om-21 Equivalent black area (EBA) and count of visible dirt in pulp, paper and paperboard by image analysis (August 17, 2025)
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.