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Plastic pipe and components are used with low pressure oxygen and enriched air for a variety of applications, including medical and healthcare, agriculture (fish farming), welding and fabrication, waste water treatment and others. Despite this widespread use, there are currently no standards that help in the materials selection and design features of these systems. ASTM International Committee…
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ASTM International Committee D10 on Packaging is reactivating Subcommittee D10.19 on Recycling/Disposability. All interested parties, particularly those who are concerned and knowledgeable about worldwide packaging and recycling issues, are invited to join in the standards developing activities of D10.19. Jan Gates, subcommittee chair, and principal packaging engineer at Abbott Vascular, hopes…
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ASTM International Committee D10 on Packaging is currently inviting all interested parties to join a new D10 subcommittee, D10.97 on University Liaison. According to S. Paul Singh, professor, school of packaging, Michigan State University, and chair of D10’s division I, the purpose of the new subcommittee is twofold. “We want to allow university programs that teach and research in packaging to be…
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ASTM International Committee G04 on Compatibility and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen Enriched Atmospheres originally developed the standard, G 88, Guide for Designing Systems for Oxygen Service, in 1984. Since that time, G 88 has been regarded as one of the leading design guides for oxygen systems throughout all industries that use oxygen. While the original version of the standard contained…
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ASTM International Committee D10 on Packaging has formed a new task group to investigate the possibilities of radio frequency identification (RFID) as a means of tracking packages. The task group is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee D10.18 on Miscellaneous Packaging. The purpose of the task group is to develop standards to evaluate the performance of RFID tags used on packaging and…