7 June 2011
ISO recently launched a CD-ROM collection of Standards that provide the basis for the worldwide manufacture, trade, and use of pulp and paper products. The CD-ROM includes 177 international Standards developed by ISO technical committee ISO/TC 6 'Paper, board, and pulps'.
'At each stage of the manufacture, trade, and use of pulp and paper products, producers, customers, and users need a precise language to communicate their performance expectations quantifiably and verifiably,' says Dr Byron Jordan, ISO/TC 6 Chair. 'International Standards provide that precise language.'
Standards developed by ISO/TC 6 support trade and ensure confidence between business partners by providing the basis for certification to confirm the performance and other characteristics of paper, board, and pulp products. For example, when objects are packaged for transportation or trade anywhere in the world, the packaging is likely to be made of recyclable paperboard. Paper and paperboard are marketed as commodities and are sold on the basis of performance specifications so that users can mix compatible material from multiple sources. Books, magazines, and newspapers can interleave pages printed on different papers as long as the appearance attributes, printability characteristics, strength, and feel of these papers are known to match – which can be confirmed by reference to ISO Standards.
Other examples of performance characteristics verified by Standards include the following:
- a train car rolling through Europe may contain boxes from Australia, India, Canada, and China and they must all stack properly, resist crush, and have enough friction not to slide against each other
- for paper products to be tailored to predetermined performance characteristics, the papermakers rely on their pulps to exhibit required performance characteristics.
In addition to the ISO/TC 6 Standards, the CD-ROM includes:
- five Standards relating to forms used for information processing developed by the joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1 'Information technology'
- one Standard dealing with photographic film and paper, developed by ISO/Technical Committee (TC) 42 'Photography'
- three Standards dealing with paper permanence, prepared by ISO/TC 46 'Information and documentation'
- seven Standards on paper sacks, prepared by ISO/TC 122 'Packaging'
- one Standard developed by ISO/TC 126 'Tobacco and tobacco products', subcommittee (SC) 1 'Physical and dimensional tests'.
Order the ISO Standards Collection on CD-ROM, Paper, board, and pulps (ISBN 978-92-67-01181-3) from Standards New Zealand by calling 0800 782 632 during business hours or emailing enquiries@standards.co.nz.
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