ISO Focus - February 2009
Materials – Building blocks of performance
We are easily impressed by the great technological achievements of our time. But we often take for granted the building blocks that enabled these creations.
Yet the performance of an imposing skyscraper, the latest vehicle or an awe-inspiring spaceship like that of many other products and structures is ensured by the specifically designed and tested materials that compose them.
In this context, International Standards are important to promote efficiency through best practice and requirements that guarantee quality and safety across global boundaries.
The February issue of ISO Focus explores the latest developments in standardization of materials, giving particular focus to how standards enable their different applications.
Read about antibacterial textiles and the possibilities presented by nanomaterials or state-of-the-art self-cleaning (photocatalyst) materials. Learn about standards ensuring the safety of car tyres or the quality of printing paper and understand the added value that ISO standards bring to this most basic of fields in this issue of ISO Focus !
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Rob Steele
ISO Secretary-General
Reach high
Guest View
Eija Pitkänen
Head of Sustainability,
Stora Enso
“The implementation of International Standards provides us with a robust base for our sales operations and customer service.”
Main Focus
Materials
- Surviving space – It starts with the right materials
- A few papery issues
- Success story – ISO standard key to legislation banning carcinogenic oils in tyres
- Saving costs, ensuring performance – Wear resistance of tyres
- Fit for use – Furniture fillings
- Versatile and widely used – Aluminium leaps into the 21st century
- All it takes is a bit of light – Purifying and self-cleaning photocatalyst materials
- Partnering for materials metrology – VAMAS
- Weaving a safer future – Antibacterial textiles
- Harmonizing test methods for energy and moisture performance of building materials
- Think small, very small – Nanomaterials, the element of tomorrow
- Cork – Natural, renewable, biodegradable
- Trend 2010 – Optimizing timber standards
Developments and initiatives
- RFID technology help blind bus riders
- South African students rewarded for work on standardization
New on the shelf
- Safer manufacturing and handling of nanomaterials
- Recyclability of earth-moving machinery
- A smoother ride for wheelchair users
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