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Women in Manufacturing: From Rosie the Riveter to Rose the CEO
August 7, 2015 My grandmother, Celia Shulman worked in the same factory in Philadelphia for 40 years. She made transistors for radios, TV’s and other electronics. She painted stripes on the transistors and worked in the shipping department at night. She never complained about her job and was proud to be able to go to work every day and support her family as a single mother. -
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Obama's Fast Track Trade Authority Opens Markets for Plastics Industry
July 7, 2015 On June 29, 2015, President Obama signed into law Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). TPA has been granted to all but one of our 13 presidents since President Franklin Roosevelt. This negotiating authority allows trade agreements such as the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to move through Congress under special rules intended to speed up the process, thus it is known colloquially as “fast-track.” -
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Murphy builds up both Davis-Standard and NPE
June 30, 2015 Jim Murphy, named in May as Davis-Standard LLC’s president and CEO, said industry activism is time well spent for machinery manufacturers. -
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Millennials in Plastics
May 22, 2015 A guest post by Michael Stark, Divisional Manager, material handling and auxiliaries at Wittmann Battenfeld, Inc. and chairman of SPI’s Future Leaders in Plastics (FLiP) -
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A Simple Shift in Shipping Regulations Could Net the American Economy $27 Billion in Annual Savings
April 28, 2015 The shipping economy operates adjacent to the manufacturing economy, and increased efficiency in either can often yield benefits in both. -
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Telling the Plastics Industry’s Story through…Food Packaging Compliance?
April 13, 2015 SPI’s Project Passport aims to make life easier for brand owners, plastics manufacturers and materials suppliers and is part of an open discussion about science, industry and consumer safety. -
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PLASTICS Celebrates International Womens Day
March 8, 2015 Each year on March 8, people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. -
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Processor of the Year Award Validates the STIHL Approach to Automation, Employee Engagement
February 19, 2015 “For us, we can’t just hire people and put them in a job; we need to qualify them in order to do the job,” said Benjamin Hoffmann, manager of polymer technologies at STIHL Inc. -
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Meet Walter Lincoln Hawkins: The African-American Pioneer Who Broke Racial and Scientific Barriers
February 19, 2015 Growing up in the early 20th century, Walter Lincoln Hawkins faced immeasurable obstacles as an African-American, orphaned at a young age, attempting to gain an education to pursue his passion of math and science.
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