ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES

           To Join the Society of Plastics Engineers


Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies
Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Chemical Society, Rubber Division
FiberSource - American Fiber Manufacturers Association and the Fiber Economics Bureau
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Plastics Council (APC)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ASM International
Association of Rotational Molders
British Plastics Federation
California Film Extruders & Converters Association
Composites Fabricators Association
Film and Bag Federation
Industrial Designers Soceity of America (IDSA)
International Association of Plastics Distributors
Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
National Association for Plastic Container Recovery (NAPCOR)
National Plastics Center and Museum (NPCM)
National Research Council (NRC) and Industrial Materials Institute (IMI) of Canada
New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program
Plastica.IT - Italy
PolymerOhio
Polystyrene Packaging Council
Polyurethane Foam Association
Society of Automotive Engineers
Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI)
Vinyl Institute



PLASTICS RELATED



British Plastics & Rubber Magazine
Hanser Gardner Publications - technical books for industry, science and education
IDES - software developer for the plastics industry
Injection Molding Magazine Online
Intertech Corporation - consulting, conferences
Materials By Design - how advanced engineering materials affect our lives
MatWeb - a free searchable materials database of polymers, composites, metals, ceramics, and more
Medical Design Technology Magazine
Medical Device Link
Modern Plastics Magazine
National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering - for beginning scientists & engineers
OEM Directory - design news directory
Packaging World Interactive
PlasticsNews on the Web
Plastics Technology Online - the magazine of plastics manufacturing
Poly Home Page - Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. of the American Chemical Society
Polymers on the Web - (College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at Univ. of Akron)
Polysort - a portal for the plastics and rubber industry, providing news, links and networking opportunities.
Rapra Technology Ltd. - a rubber and plastics information resource
Recycler's World
Regulatory Update - government regulations related to the plastics industry
Temarex Corporation - a "Technology Marketing Exchange" for polymeric technologies available for license such as extrusion simulation & modeling software; new TPE compositions, star polymers, recycling technologies and much more
Vinyl World - dedicated to the PVC industry

Seek Ohio - a web site that provides hundreds of business-related links pertinent to Ohio



SPE ASSOCIATED WEB SITES

DIVISIONS
Color and Appearance
Extrusion
Polymer Modifiers & Additives


SECTIONS

SPE's list of section web sites