Standardization and certification committees

We participate in different plastic material standardization committees in order to develop standards at national level and transpose European standards into national standards.

Our presence in national, European and international standardization bodies is aligned with the dual purpose of “adding value to companies so that they can create wealth and provide employment” and “through R&D&I, contribute to solving the challenges facing the use of plastic in today’s society in order to improve people’s quality of life and ensure environmental sustainability”.

AIMPLAS is a member of the following standardization bodies:

UNE: Spanish Standardization Body

CTN-UNE 53: PLASTICS AND RUBBER

  • GT1: PVC profiles for doors and windows
  • GT2: Agricultural film
  • GT3: PAHs
  • GT6: EPS joists
  • SC1: Elastomers
  • SC2: Plastic pipes and fittings
  • SC3: Cellular materials
  • SC4: Packaging
    • GT2: Reusable bags
    • GT3: EPS boxes
    • GT4: Reusable plastic tableware
    • GT5: Caps and lids that remain attached to the containers
    • GT6: Reusable boxes
  • SC5: Reinforced plastic materials
  • SC6: Specifications on raw materials and test methods
    • GT1: Biodegradability and bio-based products
  • SC7: Tanks
  • SC8: Plastics recycling
    • GT2: Bags
    • GT3: Polyolefins
  • SC9: End-of-life tyres
  • CTN-UNE53: Plenary session

CTN-UNE 28: AEROSPACE MATERIAL

  • SC2: Unmanned aerial systems

CTN-UNE 48: PAINTS AND VARNISHES

  • SC9: General testing
  • CTN-UNE 48: Plenary

CTN-UNE 49: PACKAGING. HORIZONTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

  • GT1: Packaging. Environmental management
  • GT3: Assessment of packaging for transportation
  • GT4: Packaging for dangerous goods
  • GT7: Flexible tubes (packaging)
  • GT10: Accessible design of packaging

CTN-UNE 77: ENVIRONMENT

  • SC 1: Water
  • SC2 /GT 1: Odour nuisance mapping

CTN-UNE 81: HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK

  • GT 1: Respiratory protection

CTN-UNE 111: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES AND DEVICES

  • CTN-UNE 111: Plenary

CTN-UNE 168: RUBBER AND PLASTIC PROCESSING MACHINERY

  • CTN-UNE 168: Plenary

CTN-UNE 319: ALGAE AND ALGAE PRODUCTS

  • CTN-UNE 319: Plenary

CTN-UNE 323: CIRCULAR ECONOMY

  • CTN-UNE 323: Plenary

CTN-UNE 324: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

  • CTN-UNE 324: Plenary

CTN GET 26: HYGIENIC FACE MASKS. COMMUNITY FACE COVERINGS

CEN · European Committee for Standardization

CEN/TC 102: STERILIZERS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT FOR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL DEVICES

  • CEN/TC 102 Plenary session

CEN/TC 155: PLASTICS PIPING SYSTEMS AND DUCTING SYSTEMS

  • WG25: Recycling of PVC-U, PE and PP materials

CEN/TC 194: UTENSILS IN CONTACT WITH FOOD

  • CEN/TC 194 Plenary session
  • WG8: Overall migration
  • WG9: Technological suitability testing methods

CEN/TC 249: PLASTICS

  • WG7: Thermoplastic films for use in agriculture
    • WG 7/TG1
  • WG9: Bio-based and biodegradable plastics
  • WG11: Plastics recycling
  • WG21: Profiles for windows and doors
  • WG24: Environmental aspects
  • WG26: Agricultural plastic products – Design-for-recycling, use, removal, collection and recycling

CEN/TC 261: PACKAGING

  • SC4: Packaging and Environment
    • WG2: Degradability and organic recovery of packaging and packaging materials
    • WG3: Material recovery
    • WG8: Heavy metals and other dangerous substances
    • WG 10 Design for recycling for plastic packaging products
  • SC5: Primary packaging and transport packaging
    • WG 25: Rigid plastic packaging as well as plastic caps and lids for any packaging containing plastic
    • WG 26: Packages made from flexible materials (e.g. flexible plastics, plastic laminates, paper/board laminated, metal foil laminates, textiles)
    • WG 27: Child resistant packaging

CEN/TC 438: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

  • CEN/TC 438 Plenary session

CEN/TC 444: ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID MATRICES

  • WG6(Task Group): Microplastics

CEN/TC 462 REGULATED CHEMICALS IN PRODUCTS

  • WG1: PAHs

CEN/CLC/JTC 20 HYPERLOOP SYSTEMS

  • WG 1 Operations and services
  • WG 2 Transport systems and requirements

ISO · International Organization for Standardization

ISO/TC 22: ROAD VEHICLES

  • SC37: Electrically propelled vehicles
    • WG3: Rechargeable energy storage
    • WG4: Systems and components connected to electric propulsion systems

ISO/TC 61: PLASTICS

  • SC 13: Composites and reinforcement fibres
  • SC 14: Environmental aspects
    • WG2: Biodegradability
    • WG3: Biobased plastics
    • WG4: Characterization of plastics leaked into the environment (including microplastics)
    • WG5: Mechanical and chemical recycling

ISO/TC 122: PACKAGING

  • SC3: Performance requirements and tests for means of packaging, packages and unit loads (as required by ISO/TC 122)
    • WG3: Child resistant containers
    • WG 8:  Transport packages for dangerous goods: subgrupo envases plásticos con material reciclado para mercancías peligrosas

ISO/TC 138: PLASTICS PIPES, FITTINGS AND VALVES FOR THE TRANSPORT OF FLUIDS

  • SC5: General properties of pipes, fittings and valves of plastic materials and their accessories — Test methods and basic specifications
    • WG5: Polyolefin pipes

ISO/TC 147: WATER QUALITY

  • SC6: Sampling (general methods)
    • WG1: Ad Hoc Group (AHG) ‘Water sampling: Microplastics and General environmental impact – Standard text for all Parts’

ISO/TC 261: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

  • ISO/TC 261 Plenary session

ISO/TC 308: CHAIN OF CUSTODY

  • WG 2 Mass balance and book and claim

Other committees

  • AEN/CTC 032 Spanish Committee for the Certification of Bitumen and Tar Sheets (AENOR)
  • Automotive Committee of the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC)
  • Aerospace Committee of the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC)
  • Advisory Committee of the Seedling mark (European Bioplastics)
  • ASOBIOCOM
  • ZA-BAW/ Biodegradable Materials (DINCERTCO)