SIZE AND IMPACT OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY ON THE U.S. ECONOMY

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Whether you’re a materials supplier, machinery supplier or OEM, you can put SPI's Size and Impact of the Plastics Industry on the U.S. Economy report—information available only from SPI—to work for you. Finding new customers. Opening new markets. Helping you grow your business in a challenging economy.

The current edition the report, released in November 2007, provides 2006 data on the number of establishments, number of employees, and dollar volume of payroll, value added, shipments and new capital expenditures for every state in the country and 2005 data on the number of establishments, number of employees, annual payroll and value of industrial shipments for every county in the United States. Data are broken out by each of the following NAICS codes:

• Plastics Materials and Resins (NAICS 325211)
• Custom Compounding of Purchased Resin (NAICS 325991)
• Plastics Product Manufacturing (NAICS 325991 & 3261)
• Unsupported Plastics Bag Manufacturing (NAICS 326111)
• Unsupported Plastics Packaging Film & Sheet Manufacturing (NAICS 326112)
• Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet (Except Packaging) Manufacturing (NAICS 326113)
• Unsupported Plastics Profile Shape Manufacturing (NAICS 326121)
• Plastics Pipe & Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (NAICS 326122)
• Laminated Plastics Plate, Sheet, & Shape Manufacturing (NAICS 326130)
• Polystyrene Foam Product Manufacturing (NAICS 326140)
• Urethane and Other Foam Product (Except Polystyrene) Manufacturing (NAICS 326150)
• Plastic Bottle Manufacturing (NAICS 326160)
• Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (NAICS 32619)
• Plstics Working Machinery (NAICS 3332201)
• Industrial Injection-Type Molds Made of Metals for Plastics (NAICS 33351105)
• Wholesale Trade for Plastics Materials & Basic Forms & Shapes (NAICS 424610)

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