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Article: SPE comments recall a more collegial time.(Society of Plastics Engineers )
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- Plastics News
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- September 7, 2009
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Byline: Bill Bregar
The Society of Plastics Engineers is struggling. SPE suffers from declining membership from around 30,000 members a decade ago to just 16,000 this year.
Executive Director Susan Oderwald and President Paul Andersen were upfront about the situation at SPE's annual Antec conference, held June 22-26 in Chicago alongside NPE2009.
Plastics industry layoffs, globalization and how to lure young people to join the society are all formidable challenges. That's why it was so uplifting to hear new members of Plastics Hall of Fame publicly praise SPE during the hall induction ceremony at NPE.
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