U.S. TAG for ISO/TC 345, Materials for specialty technologies

Objectives & Scope

The primary goal of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 345, Materials for specialty technologies, is to enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. business by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and ensuring their integrity. The U.S. TAG represents national interests on ISO/TC 345. ANSI administers the U.S. TAG to ISO/TC 345, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, to coordinate national standards activities for existing and emerging products. The U.S. TAG is guided by the ANSI cardinal principles of consensus, due process, and openness.

The scope of ISO/TC 345, and consequently the U.S. TAG, is:

Standardization in the field of specialty metals, minerals and materials from primary and secondary sources used for specialty technologies (e.g. emerging technologies, renewable energy). It includes: terminology, classification, sampling, testing and chemical analysis methods, traceability, packaging and labelling.

A list of specialty metals and minerals is included as follows: antimony, beryllium, cobalt, chromium, graphite, niobium, platinum group metals, tantalum, vanadium, zirconium.

Excluded:

Finished consumer products;

Sustainability issues;

Mining, already covered by ISO/TC 82 “Mining”;

Metals and minerals already covered by existing ISO technical committees: ISO/TC 18 “Zinc and zinc alloys”, ISO/TC 20/SC 18 “Materials” (under ISO/TC 20 “Aircraft and space vehicles”), ISO/TC 26 “Copper and copper alloys”, ISO/TC 79 “Light metals” (aluminum, titanium, magnesium), ISO/TC 132 “Ferroalloys” (manganese, chrome in ferroalloys), ISO/TC 155 “Nickel and nickel alloys”, ISO/TC 183 “Copper, lead, zinc and nickel ores and concentrates”, ISO/TC 229 “Nanotechnologies” ISO/TC 298 “Rare earth”, ISO/TC 333 “Lithium”.

NOTE: Other metals and minerals not covered by existing committees can be added to the list in the future.