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1. ASTM President Jim Thomas presents a plaque expressing appreciation to Motonobu Kuroda, head senior consultant, JSA standards engineering department, for his authorship in 2001 of a book describing ASTM for a Japanese audience, the ASTM Standardization Handbook.

2. In Tokyo, members of the ASTM delegation posed with staff members of the Japanese Standards Association. From left: Takamitsu Wada, Hiroo Wakai, motonobu kuroda, Phillip Speer, Jim Thomas, Paul Graboff, Jeff Melsom, Kitty Kono, and Yoko Watanabe, special assistant to Wakai.

3. In Shanghai, members of th ASTM delegation posed with staff members of the Shanghai Institute of Standardization. From left: Phillip Speer; Jeff Melsom; Jim Thomas; Hu Guoliang; Paul Graboff; Zhang Li Hong; vice director, SIS; and Tao Cheng of SIS's project department.

4. Li Yuguang, an engineer at Baosteel, china, spoke about Baosteel’s use of ASTM standards.

5. Outside SIS headquarters, from left: Phillip Speer; Paul Graboff; Kitty Kono; Jim Thomas; Hu Guoliang; Zhang Li Hong; Wang Jingsong, chief of standards, SIS Processing Division; and Hou Laixi, director of the SIS Standardization Service Center.

6. Representatives of the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), the Korean Standards Association (KSA), and Korean industry and academia visited ASTM International in July as part of their involvement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Standards in Trade (SiT) Workshops. Teresa Cendrowska (seated, center), ASTM director of external relations, hosted the group; Gum Ho Choe, Ph.D., liaison officer of KATS and guest researcher, Global Standards and Information Program, who coordinated the visit, is pictured left of Cendrowska. ASTM staff provided an overview of the Society and information on ASTM International’s standards development process, its electronic tools, and training activities. The SiT workshops are a major activity of the Global Standards Program and Information in the NIST Office of Standards Services. The Workshop for the Korean visitors was designed to provide timely information on practices in standards and conformity assessment. Eleven participants were introduced to U.S. technology and principles in standards development, conformity assessment, and metrology.

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