Contact: Marcia Horn
(202)974-5212

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Film and Bag Federation Sets Dates for Spring Conference 2000

WASHINGTON (February 2, 2000) – The Film and Bag Federation 's (FBF) Spring Conference will take place Sunday, April 30 -- Tuesday, May 2, 2000 at the Saddlebrook Resort, Tampa, FL. The conference brings together all segments of the national plastic film and bag industry, including converters, extruders, recyclers and suppliers.

"The Film and Bag Federation Spring Conference is known for its outstanding business sessions and offers a unique networking opportunity for our industry," noted Bob Householder, Chairman, FBF. "No where else can you find such a broad representation of companies, people and industry interest," he commented. "Our Spring Conference draws representatives from across the country, from firms of all sizes, from one end of the manufacturing spectrum to the other. This is a great chance to establish new business relationships and reinforce current ones."

This year, the Conference will focus on the "business of doing business" -- improving business profitability, enhancing employee retention and recruitment, technology trends, environmental and regulatory concerns, and exploring new business opportunities. "Business sessions for the FBF Spring Conference are set by a panel of people from our industry. They reflect issues that are important to us today as well as those that will influence the way we do business in the future," Householder said.

For more information about registration for the Film and Bag Federation Spring Conference, contact Marcia Horn, Program Manager, Film and Bag Federation, 202-974-5212; fax: 202-296-7675; e-mail: mhorn@socplas.org.

The Film and Bag Federation is the newest business unit of The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI). Founded in 1937, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. is the trade association representing the fourth-largest manufacturing industry in the United States. SPI's 1,800 members represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw material suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.3 million workers and provides $274 billion in annual shipments.

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