All interested parties are invited to participate in the development of a proposed new ASTM standard, WK18934, Safety Specification for Steel Frame and Enclosure Components of Consumer Trampolines. The proposed standard, under the jurisdiction of ASTM Subcommittee F08.17 on Trampolines and Related Equipment, covers the steel frame and enclosure components of consumer trampolines.

Developing Standards for REACH, RoHS and Similar Regulations Implementation

ASTM International Committee F40 on Declarable Substances in Materials will meet April 15-17, 2008, at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels, Belgium. The purpose of the meeting is to continue developing the international standards needed in response to REACH and RoHS implementation. 

ASTM Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications will present a technical seminar, “New Solvents and Formulating Techniques for Low VOC and HAP Paints,” on Sunday, June 15, 2008, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

A new ASTM International standard will enable composite end users and materials suppliers within the aerospace industry to perform an important test for polymer matrix composites within guidelines set by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

A new ASTM International standard provides guidance for using data generated by ASTM standards in testing for asbestos in surface dust. ASTM D 7390, Guide for Evaluating Asbestos in Dust on Surfaces by Comparison Between Two Environments, was approved by ASTM International Committee D22 on Air Quality, part of Subcommittee D22.07 on Sampling and Analysis of Asbestos.

While the continuous quality verification concept is still quite new, it has the potential to become an important approach to assuring product quality in the pharmaceutical industry.

Finding a way to accurately measure the water and volatile content of high baked phenolic coatings has led to the development of a new ASTM International standard, D 7245, Test Method for Measuring Total Water and Volatiles in Liquid Coatings Which Produce Cure Water Upon Heating.

A new ASTM standard, D 7401, Test Methods for Laboratory Determination of Rock Anchor Capacities by Pull and Drop Tests, is the result of requests to standardize a test to determine dynamic rock anchor capacity that is used internationally in the mining industry.

An innovative system that can be used to test and compare sediment control products has been approved as a new ASTM International standard by Committee D18 on Soil and Rock.

The realization that concrete production is the result of a combination of several materials that are individually standardized, but which may interact in ways not governed by those standards, led ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates to form Subcommittee C09.48 on Performance of Cementitious Materials and Admixture Combinations in 2004.