SPI's online Press Room is your one-stop shop for news, background information and other resources you need to write your story. SPI's Communications & Marketing Department can provide timely information to reporters on a broad range of public policy issues pertaining to plastics manufacturing and economic growth, and can refer reporters to plastics executives at small and large companies in every state, as well as to SPI’s public policy experts in Washington, D.C.
Thanks to a $63,000 grant from SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, Montgomery County (Md.) Executive Ike Leggett announced today that beginning immediately residents of single-family homes receiving County recycling pick-ups can now add PET thermoform plastics to their recycling bins. The announcement was made at the County’s Shady Grove Processing Facility & Transfer Station in Derwood, Maryland.
Founded in 1937, SPI is the plastics industry trade association representing the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States. SPI's member companies represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs nearly 900 thousand workers and provides $380 billion in annual shipments.
- The plastics industry is the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States
- The U.S. plastics industry employs more than nearly 900 thousand workers
- The U.S. plastics industry creates $380 billion in annual shipments
Newly Elected Officers Bring “Collective Creativity and Leadership” in Service to SPI and Third Largest U.S. Manufacturing Sector
May 10, 2013
New volunteer leaders were elected to be officers of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association at the organization's National Board Meeting held April 17-19, 2013 in San Diego, Calif.
- Natural Gas: Critical to the U.S. Plastics Industry
- Permanently Extend the R&D Tax Credit
- Funding for FDA's Food Contact Notification Program
- The Currencty Reform for Fair Trade Act
- Union Organizing/Secret-Ballot Election and Card-Check