ASTM International, known until 2001 as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is an international standards organization

Standards organization

A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization , or standards setting organization is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are...

 that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standard

International standard

International standards are standards developed by international standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use, worldwide...

s for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. The organization's headquarters is in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

West Conshohocken is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,462 in 1880; 2,482 in 1950; 1,516 in 1980; 1,294 in 1990; and 1,320 at the 2010 census....

, about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Philadelphia.

ASTM, founded in 1898 as the American Section of the International Association for Testing and Materials predates other standards organizations such as BSI

British Standards

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter...

 (1901), DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung

is the German national organization for standardization and is that country's ISO member body. DIN is a Registered German Association headquartered in Berlin...

 (1917), ANSI

Ansi

Ansi is a village in Kaarma Parish, Saare County, on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia....

(1918) and AFNOR

AFNOR

Association française de Normalisation is the French national organization for standardization and its International Organization for Standardization member body....

 (1926).