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Article: Vacuum cleaner standards update.(Guest Column)(Column)
- Article from:
- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- August 26, 1996
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For nearly 25 years the vacuum cleaner manufacturers have been working on the development of vacuum cleaner standards.
It has been a very productive program. There now are 24 vacuum cleaner standards and test methods. Vacuum cleaner manufacturers have spent many millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours in developing these standards. Rather than developing these standards by themselves as an industry, vacuum cleaner manufacturers elected to undertake the program under the auspices of ASTM.
ASTM, organized in 1898, is the largest voluntary standards development system in the United States. It provides the administrative and publications forum for its ...