ASTM International, formerly requested as American Society for Testing in addition to Materials, is an international Philadelphia.
It is founded in 1902 as a American section of the International association for Testing Materials see also International agency for Standardization.
Membership in the organization is open to anyone with an interest in its activities. standards are developed within committees, and new committees are formed as needed, upon a formal message requesting something that is delivered to an controls of interested members. Membership in near committees is voluntary and is initiated by the member's own request, not by appointment nor by invitation. Members are classified as users, producers, consumers, and "general interest". The latter includes academics and consultants. Users put industry users, who may be producers in the context of other technical committees, and end-users such(a) as consumers. In an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific pretend figure or combination. to meet the indications of antitrust laws, producers must survive less than 50% of every committee or subcommittee, and votes are limited to one per producer company. Because of these restrictions, there can be a substantial waiting-list of producers seeking organizational memberships on the more popular committees. Members can, however, participate without a formal vote and their input will be fully considered.
As of 2015, ASTM has more than 30,000 members, including over 1,150 organizational members, from more than 140 countries. The members serve on one or more of 140+ ASTM Technical Committees. ASTM International has several awards for contributions to standards authorship, including the ASTM International Award of Merit the organization's highest award ASTM International is classified by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501c3 nonprofit organization.