ISO/TC2 Annual Assembly Discussed New Fastener Standards

The Annual Assembly of ISO/TC2 (ISO Technical Commission for Fasteners) was given on Oct/14-10/18, 2013 in Paris, where the French Mechanical Standardization Union (UNM) is located. The organizer of the assembly was AFNOR and the conferences during the 5 days were hosted by Mr. Brahimi and Mr. Fautras. Nearly 42 delegates from China, Germany, USA, France, UK, Italy, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, and South Korea (observer) attended the conferences for fastener standardization of ISO/TC2, SC7, SC12, SC14, TC2, and WG13.

During the 5-day event, experts reviewed the documents and drafts for “Basic Standards”submitted  by ISO/TC2/SC7, "Metric Externally Threaded Screws” by ISO/TC2/SC11, "Metric Internally Threaded Screws” by ISO/TC2/SC12, "Metric Fastener Surface Treatment” by ISO/TC2/SC14, and "Non-threaded Fasteners & Washers"  submitted by ISO/TC2/WG13. The review included those standards proposed to be updated and revised last year (ISO/WD 3269, ISO/CD 16288, ISO/WD 6157/1, 6157/2, 6157/3, ISO/CD 1891/2, 1891/3, 1891/4, ISO/PWI 4042, ISO/CD 898/3, ISO/PWI 2320, as well as ISO 4759/3, 272, 3508, 4759/3, 4755, 7378, 8991, 8992, 2320, 15065). The attendees carefully and seriously reviewed the drafts one by one and made a resolution to organize a team for washers (WG3) for formulating the draft standards for ISO/WD 898/3 “Mechanical property of carbon steel and alloy steel fastener Section 3: flat washers and similar stamping parts.” The next annual assembly of ISO/TC2 was also announced to be in Milan, Italy in Oct 2014..