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 Industry NewsPERCspective: Medical Plastics Are Essential To Saving LivesNovember 1, 2019 Removing plastics from healthcare would put patients and healthcare professionals at risk. Currently, plastic is the best material in terms of cost-performance ratio for the healthcare industry, but also, it bears repeating, it enables the provision of the safest, fastest medical care available today. Healthcare costs would be higher if plastics were excluded from healthcare. Infections would be more common and more difficult to prevent. There are economic, environmental and scientific reasons why plastics are in medicine and healthcare today, but the most important might be the moral reason: plastics save lives. |
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Future Leaders
The FLiP Mentorship Program
January 17, 2020 The FLiP Files is a blog series spotlighting young professionals who are active in PLASTICS' Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP), a group for plastics professionals under the age of 40. -
Future Leaders
Meet FLiP’s New Chairman: Shannon Stickler
January 9, 2020 The FLiP Files is a blog series spotlighting young professionals who are active in PLASTICS' Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP), a group for plastics professionals under the age of 40. For this FLiP File, we spoke with Shannon Stickler, manager of marketing strategy at Printpack. -
Industry News
PERCspective: Counting Down to 2020
December 17, 2019 Trade friction between the U.S. and China, Brexit and the debate over the USMCA all collaborated to make 2019 a year of uncertainty. But fear not; it is most likely that this triad of issues will be resolved in 2020. -
Future Leaders
“I’ve been in the plastics industry my whole life.”
October 23, 2019 The FLiP Files is a blog series spotlighting young professionals who are active in PLASTICS' Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP), a group for plastics professionals under the age of 40. For this FLiP File, we spoke with Caitlin DeMasellis about her experience working in the plastics industry. -
Future Leaders
"Just being a part of such a big and vast industry is a positive thing."
October 16, 2019 The FLiP Files is a blog series spotlighting young professionals who are active in PLASTICS' Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP), a group for plastics professionals under the age of 40. For this FLiP File, we spoke with Steve Schlehuber about his experience working in the plastics industry. -
Future Leaders
Plastics industry “gives you a lot of opportunities if you are prepared for them.”
September 9, 2019 The FLiP Files is a blog series spotlighting young professionals who are active in PLASTICS' Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP), a group for plastics professionals under the age of 40. For this FLiP File, we spoke with Ryan Erickson about his experience working in the plastics industry.