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WASHINGTON – The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) announced today shipments of primary plastics machinery (injection molding and extrusion) in North America came in lower in First Quarter 2021 than Fourth Quarter 2020. Shipments decreased following three consecutive quarters of growth,…

Remarks as prepared for delivery: Good morning Madame Chair and members of the committee, my name is Shannon Crawford, and I am with the Plastics Industry Association. We represent the entire supply chain for plastics manufacturing in the United States which includes over 61,000 workers in…

July 7, 2021 Contact: goconnor@plasticsindustry.org Originally published in the Washington Examiner I’m a plastics industry CEO. We have a responsibility for plastic waste. By Tony Radoszewski, President & CEO of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) Folks, the world is not…

Contact: goconnor@plasticsindustry.org Originally published in BIC Magazine PLASTICS’ Radoszewski: There’s no substitute for plastics By Eric Taylor The first synthetic polymer was invented in 1869 by John Wesley Hyatt. It was created as a material substitute for ivory, and its…

WASHINGTON – Today, the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), the only industry group with membership throughout the entire plastics supply chain, announced its Plastics Industry Annual Business Outlook. Results of the annual survey indicate a strong sense of optimism for the industry over the…

WASHINGTON – Jay Gardiner, President of the Plastics Academy, has announced the 2021 inductees to the Plastics Hall of Fame. Ten leaders of the plastics industry will be officially inducted on October 7, 2021, during a ceremony at the Plastics Industry Association’s (PLASTICS) annual Fall Meeting…