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Article: Plastics machinery facing a sea change.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- July 20, 2009
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Byline: Bill Bregar
NPE2009 was a moral victory. The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. pulled off a major trade show during the worst economic times in nearly everyone's memory.
Faced with some large companies pulling out of the show, SPI President Bill Carteaux enacted an economic stimulus plan that cut costs for exhibitors. Now SPI is feeling the pain from the $3.2 million cost of the stimulus, as it restructures and lays off staff.
I covered injection molding machines at NPE, so I spent entire days in McCormick Place South, rarely seeing the sky.
Machinery executives whom I talked with said visitors to their booths expressed ...