IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 216 
Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th anniversary. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2017 
Mr. BUCSHON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees 
on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and the Workforce, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th 
anniversary. 
Whereas the Plastics Industry Association is the leading as-
sociation 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 Shawnee- 
on-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, includ-
ing plastics machinery manufacturers, plastics material 
suppliers, plastics processors, moldmakers, recyclers, and 
consumer brand owners; 
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Whereas, today, the Plastics Industry Association represents 
the interests of an industry that makes regular and vital 
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 Plas-
tics 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 indus-
try of the United States for 70 years; 
Whereas the Federal Government, through the War Produc-
tion 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 
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Whereas the plastics industry generates $418,000,000,000 in 
revenue annually in the United States and supports ap-
proximately 954,000 jobs: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) congratulates the Plastics Industry Associa-
tion on its 80th anniversary; 
(2) reaffirms the crucial role that plastics have 
played over the last 80 years and continue to play 
in strengthening the economy of the United States 
and improving the everyday lives of the people of the 
United States; and 
(3) recognizes the importance of continued in-
vestment in plastics, manufacturing, research, and 
education in the fields of science, technology, engi-
neering, and mathematics. 
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