Standardization News

The ASTM International board of directors met Oct. 16-18 in Houston, Texas, USA. In addition to the regular meeting, the directors and staff met with dozens of local companies  and organizations.  This included members and customers from businesses such as Shell, government agencies such as NASA, and educational institutions such as the University of Houston.

From left: (front row) Vicky J. Taylor, Jun Sasaki, Joannie Chin, Cesar A. Constantino, Irving S. Scher, James A. Tann, James J. Simnick, Deryk M.S. Omar; (center row) Brent Stucker, Ronald J. Ebelhar, Ralph M. Paroli, Katharine E. Morgan, D. Thomas Marsh, Dale F. Bohn, Taco van der Maten, Jeff Weiss; (back row) Lawrence D. Carbary, Ferdinando E. Aspesi, Oliver S. Delery Jr., Arman Shakkaliyev, John Fletcher, John R. Logar, R. James Galipeau, Andrew G. Kireta Jr.

Board members Cesar Constantino and John Fletcher (fourth and fifth from left) discussed standards and ASTM International with about 25 University of Houston engineering students over a pizza lunch. They also toured two labs.

Board members Taco van der Maten and Arman Shakkaliyev (second and third from left) visit Shell Oil.

Board member James Galipeau (second from left) tours a “subsea blowout preventer stack” used for drilling, made by Baker Hughes, a GE company.

Board members also visited and/or met with:

Air Liquide
Bechtel
Bray International
Bureau Veritas
Continental Carbon
Elcometer
ExxonMobil
Forterra
Fugro
Hydrocarbon Processing (Gulf Publishing)
Martin Asphalt Co.
NBM Metals
North American Energy Standards Board
PAC
SGS
Thermo/Probes
U.S. Bolt Manufacturing
U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement