PPA Members In The News

The average age of workers on the floor at Bekum America Corp.'s manufacturing facility has gone down. The German maker of extrusion blow molding machinery credits the workforce age drop — from 55 in 2014 to 42 today — to its apprenticeship program, a four-year, 8,000-hour structured training strategy launched in 1994. The program is registered with the U.S. Department…

Written by Don Rosato The 20th century will be remembered 500 years from now as the century when humans began the exploration of space. The Apollo 11 space mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA July 16, 1969, with the first humans, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, to walk on the moon July 20, 1969, and…

By Clare Goldsberry While in Albuquerque for the Spring 2019 PPA meeting, a local TV news segment focused on the problem of people stealing the large, brass historical markers around the city and selling them for cash at recycling facilities. At a cost of about $1,000 per market, the city can no longer afford to replace these markers with brass…

By Clare Goldsberry Keeping the history of plastics and the plastics industry alive for future generations is an important mission for the Plastics Pioneers Association. It is so true that you can’t truly know where you are or why unless you understand where you came from, and that’s just as applicable to the plastics industry. Glenn Beall does an excellent…