Published annually in June.
This volume contains 173 standards.
Paper-specifications establish standard property requirements for paper and paper products; as well as tests for measuring bursting strength, folding endurance, moisture content, and tear resistance of paperboard and packaging material.
Packaging-standards cover child resistant packaging and closure systems; consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical packaging; fragility assessment; tape and labels; instrumentation; interior packaging; intermodal and unimodal cargo loading; shipping containers, and more.
Flexible Barrier Materials-standards cover food and consumer flexible barrier materials and medical device packaging barrier materials.
Business Imaging Products-tests and practices establish standard procedures for laser printer tests, electrostatic imagine, and ink jet imaging.