1.1 Although the pine chemical industry has been a continuing producer of chemical products for many centuries, the nature of the industry, its products, and its terminology have changed. In particular, the original practice of recovering pine chemical through the processing of the exudate from pine trees has been supplemented by their extraction by solvent products of the wood pulping industry. For many years the industry was known as the Naval Stores industry but that term has gradually been replaced by the more descriptive and meaningful term, Pine Chemicals Industry. Thus, this terminology contains some old terms now mostly of historic value, together with the terms of the modern pine chemical industry.2
ASTM D804-12(2017) Referenced Document
ASTM D6090 Standard Test Method for Softening Point Resins (Mettler Cup and Ball Method)
ASTM E28 Standard Test Methods for Softening Point of Resins Derived from Naval Stores by Ring-and-Ball Apparatus
ASTM D804-12(2017) history
2022ASTM D804-12(2022) Standard Terminology Relating to Pine Chemicals, Including Tall Oil and Related Products
2017ASTM D804-12(2017) Standard Terminology Relating to Pine Chemicals, Including Tall Oil and Related Products
2012ASTM D804-12 Standard Terminology Relating to Pine Chemicals, Including Tall Oil and Related Products
2007ASTM D804-07 Standard Terminology Relating to Naval Stores, Including Tall Oil and Related Products
2002ASTM D804-02 Terminology Relating to Naval Stores, Including Tall Oil and Related Products
1997ASTM D804-97 Terminology Relating to Naval Stores, Including Tall Oil and Related Products