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L SPI Publications & Events Facts & Figures of the U.S. Plastics Industry --1989 Edition ...The authoritative statistical report on the U.S. Plastics industry ... Based on data collected by SPI's Commit tee on Resin Statistics ... A must for every reference shelf... See accompanying order form in this Plastics NewsBriefs for pricing and ordering information... (Pub No. BA-120) SPI Financial Management Manual... Newly revised fourvolume set covers all aspects of materials management, cost control, budgeting and cost esti mating and pricing... Offers practical methods for dealing with management of all types of custom, proprietary or captive processors ... Members, $400; non-members, $525 ... Sold as set only... Order form with pricing information included in this Plastics NewsBriefs. (Pub. No. AJ-101) November 2-9 K '89,11th International Trade Fair -- Plastics and Rubber... Dusseldorf Fairgrounds, Dusseldorf, West Germany ... For show information: Dusseldorf Trade Shows, Empire State Building, Suite 4621, New York, NY 10118, (212) 237-3750; for hotel & travel information: Dussel dorf Travel Service, (212) 888-1515 or toll free outside New York, 800835-0085. November 6-9 Tenth Biennial Symposium on Managing Corrosion with Plastics ... Sponsored by National Associa tion of Corrosion Engineers, co sponsored by SPI, SPI-Canada, American Society of Civil Engi neers, American Institute of Chemi cal Engineers, and Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry... San Antonio, Texas... Contact: Sherry Doffing, (713) 4920535. "Above Ground Applications for Polyethylene Pipe" ... A new booklet published by SPI's Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI)... Contains design criteria for use in determin ing wall thickness, changes in pipe length due to expansion or contrac tion, stress and strain development and support spacing ... Available free from Plastics Pipe Institute, Wayne Interchange Plaza II, 155 Route 46 West, Wayne, NJ 07470. (Pub. No. AW-168) To Order All items listed with a publication number may be ordered by calling 1-800-541-0736 (only MasterCard or Visa accepted as payment) or by sending a check pay able to SPI to: Literature Sales De partment, SPI, 1275 K Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005. November 8-9 Organic Peroxide Producers Safety Division ... SPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C-----Contact: Jerry Carroll, (202) 371-5233.* November 16 Styrene Information and Research Center's Annual Meeting ... Loews Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas ... Contact: Betsy Shirley, (202) 3715314. November 16-18 SPI-EPS Tech X Conference ... Commercial presentations plus discussion of environmental issues, such as solid waste management and pentane ... Opportunity to respond to special mold manufac turers' questionnaire designed to gather answers for Tech XI... Allgauer's Hotel, Northbrook, 111. ... SPI members only ... Contact: John Gillis, (202) 371-5206. November 30-December 1 SPI Food, Drug and Cosmetic Packaging Materials Committee ... Orlando World Center, Orlando, Fla.... Contact: Richard LaLumondier, (202) 371-5223. Council Committee Needs Industry Volunteers for Problem Solving The Solid Waste Technical Committee, a working group of SPI members operating in conjunction with the Council for Solid Waste Solutions, is looking for industry volunteers. The group is working on defining and solving problems in the areas of recycling, degradable material* and incineration via three task ^ groups. The committee, which has established its charter, meets quarterly. Project areas are being defined. Interested persons willing to volunteer personal time and company resources, as needed, should write Pete Dinger, director of Technology, Council for Solid Waste Solutions, 1275 K Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20005. Please specify areas of interest. For More Information ... Additional Information about any Item In this Issue of the newslet ter may be obtained by contact ing Marian Green, Editor, SPI, 1275 K Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 371-5209. Direct Inquiries for the New York office to: 355 Lexing ton Avenue, New York, NY 10017, (212)351-5410. | 4 Plastics NewsBriefs CTL016206 ROUTE TO: .. i-3: vj h- .:r ?. 2 `-V> n THE SOCIETY OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY, INO- pT.ASTICg v -L. NEWSBRIEFS October 1989, Volume 9, No. 10 Still Time To Sign Up Y For Solid Waste Summit Conference Registration is still open for the Fall Summit Conference on , Plastics _in the Waste Stream - . i .. r - . *.* j , sponsored by the Council for ` Solid Waste Solutions (CSWS) Oct. 18-19 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. . . . , Key legislators, government of ficials, environmentalists and technicalexperts will addressthe solid waste management issues --A vital opportunity for all SPI members to learn how the solid waste crisis will affect your company's future and how you can play a role in this debate. Participation is strongly encour aged. Contact Candy Foley, (202)371-5321. In This Issue News From the States2 Minnesota County Rejects Plastics Packaging Ban Hennepin County, Minn., has voted against a proposed ban on plastics food packaging similar to those passed by Minneapolis and St. Paul and in favor of a plastics recycling plan promoted by area processors and SPI's Council for Solid Waste Solutions (CSWS). "This is a very significant deci sion for several reasons," said Roger Bernstein, the Council's director of State Government Affairs. "It is the result of a concerted effort by the processors and a local coordinator to inform the county commissioners about the solid waste issue and about the recycling alternatives." The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul voted earlier this year in separate but almost identical actions to prohibit retail food establishments from using non- recyclable, non-degradable and non-returnable packaging. When a similar proposal was made in Hennepin County, home of Minneapolis, Bernstein said the Council hired a local coordinator on a three-month project to bring together the 125 plastics processors in the county and the seven county commissioners. "The local coordinator contacted the processors, about a third of whom wanted to get involved," he said. "She educated them about the solid waste issue and the recycling alternatives to the proposed ban, matched them with their commis sioners, and they took it from there." The processors met with their commissioners, wrote letters, telephoned and conducted plant visits. Their efforts were successful. Continued on page two Plastics East: Big Hit in Philadelphia2 Federal Update3 Highlights from SPI's Divisions and Sections3 Publications & Events 4 Look for"Council Update," the new quarterly newsletter from the Coun cil for Solid Waste Solutions, mailed with this issue of Plastics NewsBriefs. Plastics East attracted more than 7,300 to the Philadelphia Civic Center last month. See story page two. CTL016203 1 Plastics East: Big Hit in Philadelphia Plastics East, the industry-wide regional plastics exposition and conference sponsored jointly by SPI and the Society of Plastics Engi neers Inc. (SPE), drew 7,320 indus try leaders to the Philadelphia Civic Center for three days last month. Some 270 companies exhibited their latest innovations in machin ery, materials, ancillary equipment, and services, utilizing 45,250 square feet of the center at the Sept. 12-14 show. Hennepin County continued from page one "The commissioners in Hennepin County said they were not aware of the tremendous number of plastics processors in their state," Bernstein said. "Once they became aware, the whole nature of the problem changed. No politician wants to run a constituent out of business." Bernstein said the Hennepin County experience demonstrates the solid waste issue can galvanize not only SPI members but also others in the industry: "We found that reaching out to all plastics processors in the county is effective in helping to reverse a horrible proposal with an impact on all our industry. "And we found that the reaching out can't be done by a computer and a list of names and addresses. It takes an individual to make the call." The Council, he said, is using the same approach in Wisconsin where 300-400 plastics processors are located. "The key to making this work is that state government affairs professionals guide the processors in carrying the industry's message to the right people at the right time." A special Thermofonrung Pavil ion included 23 companies demon strating state-of-the-art processing machinery, moldmaking, materials and auxiliary equipment. Authori ties, including processor?, were on hand to answer questions about part costing and economics; rollfed, high-speed forming techniques; solid phase pressure forming; decorating and all other aspects of the specialized technology. Plastics East included a technical conference consisting of seven sessions with 42 speakers present ing 30 papers; 240 registrants attended. Topics included current recycling trends and practices, polymer additives and modifiers, new machine controls for injection molding, new computer technology and current trends in extrusion/ thermoforming. A special round table discussion examined state-ofthe-art tooling. Initiated in 1984, the jointly sponsored regional plastics shows take place annually in the years between the National Plastics Exposition (NPE), which is con ducted every three years in Chi cago's McCormick Place. NPE is sponsored by SPI, with the next show scheduled June 17-21,1991. The next SPI/SPE show -- Plastics West -- will take place Oct. 2-4,1990, in Las Vegas. For information on Plastics West or NPE, call Jordan Morgenstem, (202) 371-5250, or Brigid Donnelly, (202) 371-5249. WmsmFu,i]w] GDo QsiQ yrv ft "State Bulletin''& "State Reporter" Highlights North Carolina SPI Offers Comments on "North Carolina Air Toxics Rules ... In comments filed early last month, SPI took issue with the approach taken by the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources on two of some 100-plus potential pollutants it proposes to regulate under an air toxics program that employs stringent health-based standards ... SPI criticized the rule's approach to methylene chloride on both scientific and economic grounds, and suggested an alternative to the state's ap proach to fenceline limits on styrene ... SPI also suggested more reasonable language on the styrene rule's approach to measuring multiple pollutants and multiple facilities ... Copies of these com ments may be obtained by calling Tina Kierzek, SPI State Government Affairs, (202) 371-5333. California CFC Phase Out and Study Bills Await Governor's Signature... A bill establishing a program to reduce and ultimately phase out CFCs in California has undergone substan tial revisions, in large part, because of input from SPI and other indus try groups ... Among the changes: a requirement that city or county laws regulating CFCs be consistent with regulations of the State Air Resources Board (SARB)... Also on the governor's desk is a bill banning polystyrene foam food service products or packaging made with CFCs ... The bill would also prohibit rigid polystyrene foam products if substitutes are available. 2 Plastics NewsBriefs CTL016204 Highlights from "Washington Memo'' House Committee Approves CFC Tax ... The House Ways and Means Committee has approved a five-year, $4.3 billion tax on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that in cludes a significant exception for CFCs used to make rigid foam insulation. The CFC tax was included as a major revenue source in a budget reconciliation package that includes the capital gains tax reduction voted out by the panel. The base tax rates are for calendar years 1990 and 1991, $1.10 per pound; 1992, $1.60 per pound and for 1993 and 1994, $3.10 per pound. As a result of concerted lobbying efforts by SPI and affected manu facturers, the committee approved a complete exemption from the tax for CFCs used for "rigid foam insulation" for calendar year 1990 and a net tax of .25 per pound for this use through 1993. It is anticipated that chemical substitutes will be available by 1994 to manufacture rigid foam insula tion. SPI strongly believes that a CFC tax is poor public policy and environmentally counterproduc tive; however, the tax came to have a political life of its own, desired as a significant new source of revenue. SPI Division & Section Highlights PVC Information to be Presented at Interwire ... Two members of the Vinyl Institute will present papers related to the use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride, or vinyl) in electrical applications at Interwire '89, Nov. 7-10, in Atlanta ... Stephen H. Hookanson, Vista Chemical, will discuss performance properties of PVC wire and cable compounds for severe service applications... The topic of Robert K. Hinderer, BFGoodrich, includes the reliability of using small ani mals like rodents to predict human response to inhaled combustion products ... For information: Nora Jacobs or Dan Stanowick, (216) 7812400. Molders Division Holds Produc tivity Seminars ... Three regional, one-day seminars on injection molding productivity are being offered next year by SPI's Molders Division... Two seminars, taught by industry expert Donald C. Paulson, were held in Chicago and Boston this month, with others scheduled April 1990 in Los Ange les, Dallas and Atlanta ... They are designed to improve plant effi- ciency and increase productivity, quality and profit for American molders ... For information: Drew Fleming, (202) 371-5246. SPI's VWD Announces 1989 Out standing Performance Award Winners ... Twenty-seven window installers have been chosen winners in the Vinyl Window and Door (VWD) Institute's third annual performance competition ... The national awards program recog nizes companies for outstanding projects using vinyl window and doors supplied by VWD members ... Projects must demonstrate imaginative design, functionality and quality of workmanship ... For information and brochure listing winners: VWD, 355 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017. PFCD Elects New Chairman ... Clem Sherek, president of South Texas Urethane Inc. of McAllen and Corpus Christi, Texas, is the new chairman of SPI's Polyurethane Foam Contractors Division (PFCD) ... For the past two years, he has served as vice chairman of the Division. Share J Y' ou. r,,u . ... : Earth Day: Success Stories : With SPI" ` ..... v iv; \\- >. , SPI continues to collect plas tics industry "success stories" . for use in preparing for Earth Day 1990, a planned interna tional demonstration of public concern about the environment. During Earth Day activities, individuals and industries are going to be called to account for theircontributionsand commit- --ments to improving and saving the environment. SPI believes the plastics industry has an important story to tell: Not only do we make environmentally beneficial products, we are en vironmentally responsible manufacturers, as well. If you haven't shared your company's environmental "success story" with SPI, please do so before Oct. 15 by calling Bonnie Merrill Limbach, SPI Communications, (202) 371- 5212. CTL016205 Plastics NewsBriefs 3