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news Volume 4, Issue IV May, 1975 "ENERGY FOR PLASTICS" THEME A vital "Energy for Plastics" theme, a "Visit BRINGS ENTHUSIASTIC TURNOUT Your Congressman" program and Congressional reception, and the election of SPI Officers and Directors at Large, were all featured at the Society's Sixth Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 29 and 30. Officers re-elected are: C. Rex Scott, Phillips Petroleum Co., as Chairman of SPI; Vice Chairman, Stanford H. Shaw, Shaw Plastics Corporation; Secretary, William H. Willert, Egan Machinery Co.; and Treasurer is LaVern A. Niedfeldt, Technical Plastics Corporation. Officers will serve until May 31, 1976. Directors at Large are: Robert A. Gerdes, Plastic Moldings Corporation; Charles Grant, Hercules, Inc.; James S. Hearons, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Leonard Lane, Automatic Plastic Molding Div., Icore International; Jean F. Malone, B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co.; and Edward G. Slatcher, Container Corporation of America. They will serve from June 1, 1975, to May 31, 1978. In his talk on the State of the Plastics Industry, Mr. Scott alerted the industry to understand that they will have to engage in vigorous price com petition for a fair share of the hydrocarbon raw materials needed to keep plants running. That means, he said, that the plastics industry must price its products high enough to get its share of the available feedstocks and BTU1s of energy. "The swift rise of the plastics industry has helped demonstrate that many materials are not only interchangeable, that some are totally replaceable. This is not simply your problem, or even that of our industry association, but one for all of society," he said. "Nevertheless, it is a problem in which the SPI can far more effect ively take the leadership in seeking solutions than any of us individually. Other speakers included the Honorable Stephen S. Gardner, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; Dr. Manuel Perez-Guerrero, Venezuela's Minister of State for Economic and International Affairs, and Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska. Senator Gravel's talk highlighted the nation's serious need for a workable energy policy that would provide enough natural gas and oil to satisfy industry and public need. He also emphasised that new natural gas C. Rex Scott, SPI Chairman (left) greets Mike Gravel, Senator from A1aska THE SOCIETY OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY, INC. 250 PARK avenue NEW YORK,N y. '0017 2)2 573-9400 SPI-26629 Senator Gravel continued should be de-control led as soon as possible in order to.encourage development of new wells. His position coincides very much with SPI's own Energy for Plastics policy and Fred C. Sutro Jr.'s discussion of SPI's official stand on the de-control of new natural gas. Mr. Sutro, who is with USS Chemicals, is Chairman of SPI's Public Affairs Committee. Both gentlemen told SPI members that the de-control measure would be a positive step, though only an initial one, towards improving the general energy and feedstock situation. Ralph L. Harding, Jr., SPI President, talked about the increasing number and intensity of the problems confronting the plastics industry. They are coming in layers, he said, rather than in sequence. As a result, SPI has changed, becoming one of the most capable and action-oriented trade asso ciations in the nation. Mr. Harding assured his audience that continuation of the kind of enthusiasm exhibited at this Annual Meeting would further strengthen industry efforts. (Left to Right) John S. Gardner, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S.; Ralph'L. Harding, Jr. President of SPI, and C. Rex Scott, SPI Chairman. At the Congressional Reception: Iver Freeman, Reed Prentice Div., Packaging Machinery Corp., (right) talks to unidentified Congressman from Massachusetts. But members did more than simply listen to speakers and reports at the Meeting they actively participated. Tuesday afternoon, April 29th, attendees visited their Congressmen on the "Hill" and spoke to them about the problems and needs of the plastics industry - especially in the area of energy. That evening, 2- - SPI-26630 Annual Meeting - continued they attended a Congressional reception to which the Legislators had been invited. About 30 Congressmen and/or their Administrative Assistants were present, making for a stimulating and successful affair. Attendees expressed their opinions of the Congressional visits in Reaction Reports and overwhelmingly agreed that the program was not only constructive but necessary for the future. (Complete texts of the talks given at the Meeting will be available in booklet form at a later date.) SPI WINS On March 30th, some of you may have seen the inflammatory "EQUAL TIME" article in the Real Estate section of the Sunday New York IN N. Y. TIMES Times in which the author attempted to portray plastics in construction and its supporters as villains. "Plastics in Construction Are a Fire Hazard," wrote James 0. Morgan, a Pratt Institute Environmental Oesign staffer. Presenting a series of emotional half-truths, he trotted out the Manhattan telephone building fire, the impact of gases from burning plastics on fire-fighters, and an assortment of other "facts" culminating with a report of his reaction to the movie, "The Towering Inferno." Drawing on its resourcefulness all to frequently called for these past few years, SPI proceeded to convert a bad moment into an opportunity with dispatch. Quickly negotiating the opportunity for "equal time" to air the broader body of facts, a response was drafted by Joseph McDermott, manager of SPI's Plastics in Construction Council. His "In Defense of Plastics" appeared on the front page of the publication's Sunday, April 20th Real Estate Section. In a factual presentation, McDermott brought the rest of the picture into focus, citing facts omitted by Morgan, correcting inaccuracies, and reporting the various research activities being funded by the plastics industry through SPI. We recommend you to the article for first-hand interest. The complete text is attached to this edition of NewsBriefs. DOROTHY RICHEY Well-known broadcaster, SPOKESWOMAN FOR novelist, columnist, and PLASTIC BOTTLE lecturer Dorothy Richey fNStlTUTE began her new duties as spokeswoman for the Plas tic Bottle Institute recently in Houston, Texas. She has appeared on television and radio programs,and has been interviewed by the local newspapers and spoke before the Women's Civic Club. Bursting with enthu siasm, Mrs. Richey brings plastic bottles in the shapes of accordions, plumbing fixtures, bears, you name it, to engage today's major consumers - women. (continued over) .... -3- SPI-26631 Dorothy Richey - continued "I decided to become the industry's spokeswoman because plastic has created a renaissance in packaging," she declares. "Plastic bottles make standardized packaging a thing of the past." Mrs. Richey's husband is Chief Chemist with Arco Polymers, Port Arthur, Texas. Unbeatable combination! PEPSI COLA HITS THE SPOT The Pepsi Cola Co., won the Plastics Industry _F_O_R__P__B_I __B_O__T_T_L_E__A_W_A__R_D 1975 Bottle of the Year Award for its 32 fluid oz. soft beverage bottle. The industry award, sponsored by the Plastic Bottle Institute, was one of seven announced at the Waldorf Astoria during the Third Annual Plastic Bottle of the Year Awards. The Pepsi bottle is a clear cylindrical container featuring a stabilizing base. Because the oolvester resin is polyethylene terephthalate, the bottle retains carbonation and withstands internal pressure. The blow molder was The DuPont Company. Judges were Ben Miyares, Food and Drug Packaging; Joseph Kalina, Modern Plastics; Roger Guilfoyle, Industrial Design; Evan Frances, Lady's Circle; and Del phene Richards, Redbook. Also judging the entries - May Bender, of May Bender Industrial Design, Inc. At the same time, PBI's Consumer Advisory Board named the Excalibur Concours Car Wax container as the Bottle of the Year. The blow molder was Kerr Glass Manufacturing Co., Lancaster, Pa. The Consumer Board, a nation-wide group of 106 homemakers, was created to help the industry continually upgrade its products. John W.Cahill, Director Plastic Bottle Div., Pepsi Cola Co., (right) receives Award from Don Pollack, PBI Chairman Other category awards were given to bottles blow molded by Brewster Plastics, Inc.; Texize Chemical Co.; Charter Supply,; IMCO Container Co.; the Bottle Division of Phillips 66; Corco, Inc.; and Wheaton Plastics. -4- SPI-26632 COMBUSTIBILITY SYMPOSIUM SPI's Fourth Combustibility Symposium in BOASTS RECORD ATTENDANCE Washington, D.C., last month, was the largest so far. Over 175 attendees heard authoritative speakers discuss the industry's fire problems and the research programs aimed at solving these problems. Dr. Joseph E. Clark, the Acting Adminis trator of the Commerce Department's National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, told the meeting that "the plastics industry is one of our principle resources in combatting the fire problem." Citing the industry's "breadth and depth in research and development on more fire-safe materials," Dr. Clark called on the industry's leadership to "increase efforts to bring improved products to the market place." The keynote speaker, Dr. Dieter H. Ambros, President, BASF Wyandotte Corporation, also encouraged "a positive and active approach by members of the plastics industry when confronted with challenge, rather than sitting back and waiting for adversity to overwhelm them." He told the meeting that we must increase our communications within the industry, especially in respect to the safety aspects of plastics. John J. McEvoy, E. I. Dupont de Nemours, was Program Chairman for the successful two-day meeting. WESTERN CONFEREES FLOCK Well over 200 persons attended the Transactional TO SAN FRANCISCO SESSIONS Analysis Seminar offered at SPI's Western Section Conference in San Francisco in April. "How to Manage Yourself and Other People" was the thrust of the TA session. For the third year in a row, the Western Conference has offered such a session in human behaviour and each year, the attendees have greeted it enthusiastically. Total paid attendance for the Conference exceeded 400 persons. A look at the industry's future was provided by keynote speaker Reed Belden of Allied Chemical and marketing research methodology was discussed by W. R. Grace's Robert Miller. Leonard Lane, Automatic Plastic Molding Division of Icore International, was named Man of the Year in ceremonies on the final day of the Conference. Mr. Lane is also a Director at Large for SPI. NEW APPROACH TO INJURY The Safety and Loss Prevention Committee of SPI AND ILLNESS DATA ^ has initiated a new method of collecting industry occupational injury and illness data. The American National Standard method has been replaced with OSHA Form 102 which identifies the processing method by S.I.C. number. The data is confidential and will be used to provide SPI with Industry Disabling Injury Accident Experience and as a back-up for SPI's Safety Awards Program. If you are a processing company and somehow did not receive the original mailing of this form which was made in April, please contact Jerry Carroll at SPI, N.Y. -5- SPI-26633 SPI ISSUES The VCM-PVC Producers Coimittee of SPI has developed PVC TRAINING a four-page training manual entitled " What Every Employee MANUAL Should Know About ----- Polyvinyl Chloride -- and What You Should Tell Others." The manual was prepared in response to one requirement of the OSHA standard on VCM which calls for the estab lishment of a training program for all employees engaged in the "manufacture, reaction, packaging, repackaging, storage, handling or use of vinyl chloride or polyvinyl chloride" regardless of the employee's level of exposure. It "does not apply to the handling or use of fabricated products made of poly vinyl chloride." A single copy of the manual has already been sent to member company representatives. Additional single copies are available free from the SPI Literature Department. Multiple copies can be ordered from the New York office at $10. per 100. The manual is specifically designed to assist SPI member companies who are PVC fabricators or processors in complying with the OSHA requirement. SPI TECHNICAL The positive image of the plastics industry was presented DIRECTOR ON before two important audiences during the month of April by SPEAKING TRAIL John Lawrence, SPI1s Technical Director. He addressed the 13th American Society for Metals Annual Public Seminar on the subject: 'Plastics Materials Rold in Resource and Energy Conservation," and the Second Plastics Manufacturing Seminar of the 1975 International Tool and Manufacturing Exposition and Engineering Conference on "Plastics Face Environmental and Health Concerns with Confidence." Response to both presentations was favorable, and the questions asked by attendees at both meetings indicated that the understanding of our industry is growing as is the positive interest of people who are not actively involved in it. PLASTICS WASTE U. S. use of plastics will rise from 30 billion pounds MANAGEMENT UPDATE in 1970 to as high as 60 billion pounds per year by 1980. This forecast is part of the update of the 1972 Plastics Waste Management study prepared for MCA by DeBell & Richardson. The study reviews current disposal methods for plastics including incineration, reuse and recycle, pyrolysis (chemical change caused by heat), sanitary land fill and environmental degradation. It also examines government activity and environmental impact statements in SWM, energy needs and consumption and the future for solid waste recycling. The 1974 update of "Plastics Waste Manage ment" is available for $5.75 per copy from: Publications Service - MCA; 1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. Quantity prices are available. A two-page summary is included with each report. TWO-WAY TRADE U. S. Tariffs on plastics should not be reduced unless FOR PLASTICS they are given equalized access to foreign markets, de- URGED dares William F. Christopher, Director of SPI1 s Inter national Committee. Addressing the International Trade Commission recently, he noted that plastics offer an excellent opportunity for negotiation by sector, including both tariff and non-tariff barriers. -6- SPI-26634 IMPORTANT UP-COMING SPI ACTIVITIES May 29. The Western Section Reinforced Plastics/Composites Institute of SPI will host a meeting at the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry which will open a public summer-long display of outstanding plastics in construction projects designed by California junior high and high school students. The program begins at 3.00 p.m. at the Museum. Additional information is available from SPI Los Angeles. June 8-10. Noted economist Walter W. Heller of the University of Minnesota and member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Energy Office Advisory Panel will be the keynote speaker at the Midwest Section Conference at the Nordic Hills Inn in Itasca, Illinois. His topic will be: "Recovery Without Re-Inflation -- Can It Be Done?" But he is only one of several speakers who will be addressing themselves to the Conference theme of "How To Survive In '75" including Geoffrey Snelling, Market Research Specialist of Du Pont; Willard Grimm, President of W. I. Grimn & Company, Financial Consultants; Bruce Olson, Partner in Ernst & Ernst; Betty Garvey, Industrial Psychologist, Conwed Corporation and others. Registration fee is $85. for SPI members; $110 for non-members. Contact SPI Midwest for further information and registration forms. June IQ-12. 16th National Plastics for Tooling Conference at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. Details from Charlie Condit at SPI N.Y. June 16. Announcement of the winners in the SPI Furniture Division's Sixth Annual Plastics in Furniture Competition (Poly Awards). Presentations will be made at the American Mart in Chicago. June 27-29. "The Changing Face of the EPS Industry" is the theme of the Third Annual National Conference of the EPS Materials Group scheduled for The Abbey in Lake Geneva, `Wisconsin. The meeting has been designed to meet the special needs and interests of block and shape molders, with separate seminar sessions for each group. Concurrent with the Conference will be the Sixth National Expandable Poly styrene Competition sponsored by the EPS Material Group of the SPI Cellular Plastics Division. The competition has been broadened to include "fabricated parts" giving block molders a special first time category for their products. Awards will be given in seven product classifications. Registration fee for both events in $30. for members; $60. for non-members. Contact SPI Midwest for further information. September 16-19. The 31st Annual New England Conference at Dunfey's Hyannis Resort, Hyannis, Mass. October 1-3. The SPI National Moldmarker Conference at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans will address itself to the economics of moldmaking, new techniques, and people problems. In response to attendees' comments after last year's meeting, the program has been expanded to a full day and a half. More details will appear here as the program develops. (continued over) -7- SPI-26635 October 8-10. The SPI Cellular Plastics Division Conference on Transportation at the Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit. THE MEETING CALENDAR May 12-16. The 1975 Annual Meeting of the National Fire Protection Association will be held at the Palmer House in Chicago and will center on the theme "Advances Toward the Solution of Fire Problems." Action will be taken on twenty-one proposed and existing standards which will affect industrial, commercial and public interests. A Plastics in Use forum will be one of the special seminars held at the meeting. Further information is available from NFPA at 47 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, (617) 482-8755. May 21. The Third Annual Meeting of the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada will be held at the Chateau Champlain, Montreal. On the agenda is a report on U. S. SPI activities, by Ralph Harding, Jr., and a talk by Tony Amery, Economist for Dupont, "who will project the economic situation in Canada to 1980." June 9-11. The 11th National State of the Art Symposium, which will address itself to the interdependence of energy and materials, will take place at the the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. The meeting has been organized by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and is co-sponsored by 23 other trade and technical organ izations, including SPI. The registration fee is $50. for three days for members of cooperating organizations. The full program for the meeting as well as registration forms can be obtained from Mrs. Barbara Hodsdon, Manager, Regional Meetings and Conferences, ACS, 1156 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 872-4450. September 16-19. PATEC '75 is the first of a planned series of annual Pacific Technical Conferences being inaugurated by SPE. The meetings will be geared to the needs of the western plastics industry with the MGM Grand Hotel in las Vegas being chosen as the site of the first meeting. Forty technical papers will be presented on a wide variety of subjects. Contact Suzy Witzler at Plastics Machinery & Equipment Magazine, 311 Steele Street, Denver, Colorado 80206, (303) 321-3911, for further information. September 27-30. Reinforced Plastics for Corrosion Control is the theme chosen by the Niagara Frontier Section of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers for its Fall meeting at the Niagara Hilton, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Further information is available from Donald Kloda, Hooker Chemical Corporation, Walck Road, North Tonawanda, N.Y. 14120, (716)695-1600. 8- - SPI-26636 Meeting Calendar - continued In 1976. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has issued a call of papers for its 7th Biennial National Waste Conference scheduled for May 23-26, 1976, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Boston. Offers for papers along with a fifty word abstract, must be received by June 1, 1975. The full paper must be submitted by September 15, 1975. Interested parties should contact James A.Fife, Technical Program Chairman, Charles T. Main, Inc., Southeast Tower, Prudential Center, Boston, Mass., 02199. NFPA CATALOG The 1975 edition of the National Fire Protection AVAILABLE Association's catalog of 600 publications and visual aids on fire safety is available free from NFPA Pub lications Sales Department, 470 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210. The catalog list fire protection codes and standards, films and other aids to speakers, course materials, periodicals, textbooks, etc. MEMBERS HELP NEEDED The Styrene Producers Ad Hoc Committee of the FOR FLAMMABILITY TESTING SPI Furniture Division has decided that testing is needed in order to obtain data for possible use by the Public Affairs Committee in answering .a petition filed by an individual with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Committee is soliciting the support and participation of any other groups of resin producers or processors who will join in forming a committee for the specific purpose of assembling and developing documented data for this purpose. Contact Julie Cahn, SPI Furniture Division Staff Director at the New York office. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS DR. WOLFGANG A. MACK has been installed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Plastics Institute of America. He is President of Werner & Pfleiderer Corporation. DR. ROCCQ A. PETRQNE has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc. (NCRR). He was launch director of the first Apollo manned lunar landing flight and associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration. Dr. Petrpne succeeds DR. RICHARD L. LESHER who became President and Chief Operating Officer of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce on May 1. LIMITED GROUP TOUR TO DUSSELDORF K-75 PLASTICS SHOW SPI is sponsoring a limited group tour to the K-75 International Plastics and Rubber Exhibit in Dusseldorf, Germany. Show dates are October 7-14, 1975, and all arrangements must be made directly with Europacar, a -9- continued SPI-26637 Dusseldorf Tour - continued division of Atlantic-Pacific Travel, Inc. SPI members can realize significant savings going this route. Three set plans include 7, 10 and 13 nights, but you can work out a customized arrangement. However, only a limited number of rooms have been reserved, so you must act quickly. Member firms exhibiting in the jointly sponsored U. 5. exhibit have first choice. Reservation cutoff date is June 1 or sooner! Reserve directly with Europacar. Call Ms. Cali Thomas at (212) 751-3250, New York City. PRODUCTION AND SALES Final figures for February, 1975, indicate that OF RESINS U. S. plastics production, excluding styrene latex, CONTINUE DOWNWARD styrene based polymers and SAN, reached 1,214 million pounds - a 29% decrease over the same month a year ago. This rate of production decline matched last month. Sales and use for February hit 1,226 million pounds, excluding styrene latex, styrene polymers and SAN. This was 31% lower than the same month a year ago. How ever, the rate of sales decline in February, as compared to January this year, was only an 8% drop - a continued slackening in the rate of decline. Business inventories declined 0.5% - a record $1.49 billion in February to a seasonally adjusted $270.36 billion. Most of the shrinkage came from a 9% reduction in stocks of automobiles at the dealer level. This should be considered encouraging because inventory adjustments must be effected at the retail, distributor and wholesale levels before any resumption can be expected at the manufacturing level where unemployment is heaviest. U. S. production in March, 1975, according to the Statistical Department of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI), for select thermo plastic resin materials, indicate a decline of 40% over the comparable month a year ago. This was about the same rate of decline as last month. Again, all reported materials showed significant decreases. Production, as compared to last month, however, was up about 8%, perhaps reflecting an improvement in orders. U. S. Sales and Use (captive consumption) for March were off close to 39% as compared to March a year ago. While the comparative rate for March was little improved over last month, it would appear the the trend of incoming orders at the producer level is up because sales reflected almost a 12% increase over the preceding month for select materials. (see attached Tables) - 10 - SPI-26638 F;r trie Month 3l February Months to Dale TABLE III U.S. PRODUCTION OF PLASTICS AND RESIN MATERIALS ' In rhcusands of pounds, dry weight! MATERIAL Thwmosets: Epoxy Polyester Urea Melamme Phenolic TOTAL Thermoplastics: Low Density Polyethylene High Density Polyethylene Polypiopylene A0S SAN Polystyrene Styrene Latex Other Styrene Based latexes Styrene Baaed Polvmere + SAN Nylon Polyvinyl Chloride Vinyl Acetate Polyvinyl Alcohol Other Vmyls TOTAL GRAND TOTAL FEBRUARY 1975 1974 i a$T MONTH ACTUAL VOLUME CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 1975 vs 1974 LAST MONTH PERCENT CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 1975 vs 1974 LAST MONTH 15,289 57,248 45,606 6,379 70,215 194,737 19,488 71,029 80,616 13,386 117,071 301,590 14,923 - 4,199 + 366 51,817 - 13,781 + 5,431 42.891 - 35.010 1 + 2.715 6,143 - 7,007 + 236 72,362 - 46,856 - 2.147 188,136 -106,853 + 6,601 - 21.5 - 19.4 - 43.4 - 52.3 + 2.5 ! + 10.5 1 i + 6.3 | + 3.8 - 40,0 - 3.0 - 35.4 + 3.5 332,024 158.992 89,389 482,498 223,825 176,397 418,667 -150,474 - 86,643 217.714 - 64.833 - 58,722 112,615 - 87,008 - 23,226 - 31.2 - 29,0 - 49.3 26.257 72,570 29.924 - 46.313 - 3.667 ___ - 63.8 - 144,636 30,579 277,062 43,615 152,969 -132,426 - 8,333 29,968 - 13,036 + 611 - 47.8 - 29.9 3.454 10.119 5,059 209.661 n.c. n.c. 16,853 381.092 m 3.991 537 12.035 - 1.916 9,913 - 11,794 - 4,854 267.772 -171.431 - 58.111 m m - 70.0 - 45.0 _ 6.586 12.150 1.028.906 1.223.643 11,056 16.328 n.c. n.c. 11.044 - 4.470 12.439 - 4.178 1.279.051 1,467,187 - - *,8 ... 289 -250.145 -243.544 - 40.4 - 25.6 - - 20.7 -x / - 27.0 - 20.6 - 12.3 - - 5.4 + 2.0 - 13.5 - 15.9___ - 49.0 - 21.7 - - 40.4 - 2.3 - 19.6 - 16.6 Source: The Society of the Pleatlca Induetry, Conalttee on Reals Statlatlca aa compiled by Ernst & Ernat. n.c. - Hot Comparable SPI-26639 F3f trie Month of February Months to Date TABLE III U.S. PRODUCTION OF PLASTICS AND RESIN MATERIALS l In thou sands pounds, dry wci^hM ) MATERIAL Ther nosets: Epoxy Polyester Urea Melamine Phenolic TOTAL Thermoplastics: Low Density Polyethylene High Density Polyethylene Polypropylene A0S SAN Polystyrene Styrene Latex Other Styrene Based Latexes Styrene Based Polvmers + SAN Nylon Polyvinyl Chloride Vinyl Acetate Polyvinyl Alcohol Other Vmyls TOTAL GRAND TOTAL FEBRUARY 1975 1974 LAST MONTH ACTUAL VOLUME CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 1975 vs 1974 LAST MONTH PERCENT CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 1975 vs 1974 LAST MONTH 15,289 57,248 45.606 6,379 70,215 194,737 19,488 71,029 80,616 13,386 117,071 301,590 14,923 51,817 42,891 - 4,199 + 366 - 13,781 + 5,431 - 35.010 + 2.715 - 21.5 [ + 2.5 ---------1--9--.-4------!1---+----1--0--.-5------- 43.4 ! + 6.3 6,143 - 7,007 + 236 - 52.3 : + 3.8 72,362 - 46,856 - 2,147 188,136 -106,853 + 6,601 - 40.0 - 35.4 - 3.0 + 3.5 332,024 158,992 89,389 482,498 223,825 176,397 418,667 -150,474 - 86,643 217.714 - 64.833 - 58.722 112,615 - 87,008 - 23,226 26.257 _ 72.570 - 29.924 - 46.313 - 3.667 __. 144,636 30,579 277,062 43,615 152,969 -132,426 - 8,333 29,968 - 13,036 + 611 3,454 10.119 5,059 209,661 m n.c. n.c. 16,853 381.092 3.991 537 12.035 - 1.916 9,913 - 11,794 - 4,854 267.772 -171.431 - 58.111 m 6,586 12.150 1,028.906 1.223.643 11,056 11,044 - 4,470 - 4.458 16.328 12.439 - 4,178 289 n.c. 1,279.051 m -250.145 n.c. 1,467.187 _ -243.544 - 31.2 - 29.0 49.3 - 20.7 -v - 27.0 i - 20.6 - 63.8 _ _ - 47.8 - 29.9 m - 70.0 - 45.0 - 5.4 + 2.0 - 13.5 - 15.9 _ - 49.0 - 21.7 _ - 40.4 - 25.6 m m - 40.4 - 2.3 - 19.6 - 16,6 Source: The Society of the Plaeclce Industry, Committee on Resin Statistics as compiled by Ernst & Ernst. n.c Not Comparable 12 SPI-26640 G Fw the Month ofFebrusry Q_____ Months to Oat* TABLE IV U-5. SALES & USE (CAPTIVE) OF PLASTICS AND RESIN MATERIALS (In thousands of pounds, dry wai^it) MATERIAL Thermosets: Epoxy Polyester Urea Melamine Phenolic TOTAL Therrnoplestlet: Low Density Polyethylene High Density Polyethylene Polypropylene A0S SAN Polystyrene Styrene Latex Other Styrene 8ased Latexes Styrene Based Polymer* + SAM Nylon Polyvinyl Chloride Vinyl Acetate Polyvinyl Alcohol Other Vmyis TOTAL GRAND TOTAL FEBRUARY 1975 1974 LAST MONTH ACTUAL VOLUME CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 197S vs 1974 LAST MONTH PERCENT CHANGE VS. FEBRUARY 1975 w 1974 LAST MONTH 13.614 53,047 46,247 7.385 71.700 191.993 17.667 71,143 80.391 13.860 115.497 298.558 14.007 - 4.053 393 48,822 - 16,096 + 4,225 42.180 - 34,144 + 4,067 8.468 - 6.475 1.083 76.027 - 43.797 4,327 189.504 -106.565 + 2.489 . 22.9 . 25.4 . 42.5 46.7 37.9 . 35.7 . 2.8 + 8.7 + 9.6 12.8 _ 5.7 + 1.3 316.104 143,235 493,963 222,277 388.993 -177.859 155,905 - 79,042 72.889 12,670 36.0 35.6 104.073 27.041 182.590 69,144 ^* 148.209 30.202 2.390 10.947 8,127 209,428 274.022 40.751 n.e. n.c. 15.205 403,554 109.528 - 78.517 5.455 24,840 - 42,103 + 2,201 mm 155.507 -125.813 m 7.298 32.011 - 10.549 m 1.809 3.541 m 1,151 10.097 + 850 7,563 - 7.078 + 564 226,379 -194,126 16,951 43.0 m 60.9 m m 45.9 m 25.9 m m 46.6 48.1 32.908 3,997 10,219 1.046,880 1.238.873 50.034 33.721 - 17.126 813 11,893 16,467 5,308 - 7,896 1,311 10,238 - 6,248 19 n.c. 1,163,631 m 116,751 n.c. 1,353,135 _ 114.262 34.2 _ 66.4 . 37.9 _ 18.7 8.1 5.0 + 8.9 4.7 5.7 m 32.5 + 8.4 + 7.5 7.5 2.4 . 24.7 - 0.2 10.0 - 8.4 Source: The Society of the Plsstlcs Industry, Coanittee on Reela Stetletles, ee compiled by Ernst 4 Ernst. n.c. - Mot Coapsreble . 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