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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 64 

Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th anniversary. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 17 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 16), 2017 

Mr. JOHNSON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th 

anniversary. 

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association is the leading association in the United States that represents companies 

in the plastics industry; 

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association was founded as 

the Society of the Plastics Industry in 1937 in Shawneeon-Delaware, Pennsylvania, as the collective voice of a 

then-nascent plastics industry and has since become the 

chief advocate for the entire plastics supply chain, including plastics machinery manufacturers, plastics material 

suppliers, plastics processors, moldmakers, recyclers, and 

consumer brand owners; 

Whereas, today, the Plastics Industry Association represents 

the interests of an industry that makes regular and vital 

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contributions to the healthcare, automotive, advanced 

manufacturing, transportation, aeronautics, building and 

construction, telecommunications, recycling, packaging, 

and consumer electronics sectors; 

Whereas, over the course of the 80-year history of the Plastics Industry Association, the association has— 

(1) advocated for the use of plastics; and 

(2) presided over the development of plastic from a 

low-cost replacement for metals, wood, glass, marble, 

shell, and other traditional materials to the sustainable 

material of choice because of its strength, light weight, 

recyclability, and design versatility; 

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association hosts NPE: The 

Plastics Show, which is the second largest trade show in 

the United States and attracts more than 60,000 plastics 

professionals from more than 100 countries to the United 

States every 3 years; 

Whereas the Plastics Industry Association has hosted NPE: 

The Plastics Show in the United States since the show 

was first founded in 1946 and the show has served as a 

platform for growth and innovation in the plastics industry of the United States for 70 years; 

Whereas the Federal Government, through the War Production Board, recognized the importance of plastics and the 

contributions of plastics to the war effort during World 

War II, a conflict in which plastics played an essential 

military role with respect to weaponry, aircraft, wire and 

cable technology, medical devices, and troop supplies; and 

Whereas the plastics industry generates $418,000,000,000 in 

revenue annually in the United States and supports approximately 954,000 jobs: Now, therefore, be it 

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1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) congratulates the Plastics Industry Associa3 tion on its 80th anniversary; 

4 (2) reaffirms the crucial role that plastics have 

5 played over the last 80 years and continue to play 

6 in strengthening the economy of the United States 

7 and improving the everyday lives of the people of the 

8 United States; and 

9 (3) recognizes the importance of continued in10 vestment in plastics, manufacturing, research, and 

11 education in the fields of science, technology, engi12 neering, and mathematics. 

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