Whom to Contact:

Melissa Hockstad
Senior Technical Director, New and Existing Technologies
(202) 974-5258

• Background
• Codes
• Standards

Background

SPI is active in monitoring and developing codes and standards for the plastics industry. These activities include alerting members to codes and standards based issues that may impact plastics and ensuring that the membership has a voice in the codes and standards making processes. SPI's activities also focus on strengthening the membership's opportunity to influence and address codes and standards that affect the plastics industry.

The SPI Coordinating Committee for Fire Safety (CCFS) serves as a forum for SPI business units and other interested company members to bring forth and/or review specific building and fire code proposals and related fire safety issues. Also, SPI Staff regularly reviews the publications of codes and standards organizations to identify activities of interest to the plastics industry.

Codes

In the codes area, SPI reviews activities of all three model code organizations as well as several state code groups such as:

• The International Code Council (ICC)
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Standards

In the standards area SPI participates with groups such as:

• The Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL)
• ASTM International (formerly The American Society for Testing and Materials)
• The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) )

SPI also monitors activities of international groups that specialize in standards for electrical products. such as:

• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC),
• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
• European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)

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