The ASTM International Advantage Award, a paper competition, is an opportunity for the users of ASTM International standards worldwide to convey the positive outcomes of applying an ASTM standard or a group of ASTM standards.

The competition seeks original papers demonstrating the positive impact of using ASTM International standards, and which provide background information and data showing such values as cost savings, efficiency, market access, safety, etc.

Winning papers from the inaugural award in 2007 were published in the November 2007 issue of ASTM Standardization News magazine. Winning papers from 2008, if any, will be published in the November/December 2008 of SN.