Roberto Fernandez and Aldo Procacci Cluster expansion for abstract polymer models. New bounds from an old approach (64K, Latex) ABSTRACT. We revisit the classical approach to cluster expansions, based on tree graphs, and establish a new convergence condition that improves those by Koteck\'y-Preiss and Dobrushin, as we show in some examples. The two ingredients of our approach are: (i) a careful consideration of the Penrose identity for truncated functions, and (ii) the use of iterated transformations to bound tree-graph expansions.