Plastics Business Magazine

The Culture Shift of the Morning Meeting

When successfully executed, morning meetings offer a chance for increased communication among all employees. Continue Reading »
Investing in the Tool Room

Efficiencies – or inefficiencies – in the tool room can have a significant opportunity to affect quality, delivery times and bottom-line profitability. Continue Reading »
Review: The Power of Influence

More than 500 people attended the 2015 MAPP Annual Benchmarking & Best Practices Conference. Continue Reading »
Reducing the Risks of Combustible Dust

The presence of combustible dust can present a grave hazard to employees, employers and facilities. Continue Reading »
Year-End Tax Planning

Processors need to consider a number of different available options as they conduct year-end tax planning. Continue Reading »

About Us

Plastics Business is a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 12,500, targeting the plastics processing business executive. It is distributed to corporate management as well as plant and production managers involved with all types of plastics processing and manufacturing, primarily in the United States. Learn more »
Manufacturers Association
of Plastics Processors

MAPP was started in August 1996 as a not-for-profit trade association — by processors, for processors. MAPP now has over 1,000 industry executives in member companies actively benchmarking to improve their operations and communicating with one another to solve problems. Learn more »
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February
9-11: PLASTEC West
April
13-14: PLASTEC New England
May
23-25: ANTEC
June
14-16: PLASTEC East
September
21-22: PLASTEC Minneapolis
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