Packaging Information

Associations

• Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute - (PMMI)

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) is a non-profit trade association whose 500+ members manufacture packaging and packaging-related converting machinery in the United States and Canada .

Food Information

Associations

• Tortilla Industry Association – (TIA)

TIA assists tortilla industry companies to grow through effective management and marketing techniques. The association also addresses regulation and quality control, as well as distribution issues, and provides members with educational support through technical seminars, conventions, and market research.

Screen Printing and Textile Information

Associations

• Specialty Graphics Imaging Association –(SGIA)
• SGIA actively serves specialty imagers. Our services include the SGIA Information network, the most extensive online resource available to our industry. We conduct SGIA Convention & Exposition, the largest and leading showcase for technology and market information. Every day, we keep members up to date on the forces shaping their industry, including (but not limited to) business trends, emerging markets and new technologies.

Rubber and Plastics Information

Associations

• Rubber Manufacturers Association - (RMA)
• RMA is the national trade association for the rubber products industry. Its members include more than 100 companies that manufacture various rubber products, including tires, hoses, belts, seals, molded goods, and other finished rubber products. RMA members employ over 120,000 workers and account for more than $21 billion in annual sales.

• Society of Plastics Industry – (SPI)
• Founded in 1937, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., is the trade association representing one of the largest manufacturing industries in the United States . SPI's members represent the entire plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery and equipment manufacturers and raw materials suppliers. The U.S. plastics industry employs 1.4 million workers and provides more than $310 billion in annual shipments.

Company/Association Membership

• Pfoa-facts.com
  • The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI) has created this web site to address questions you may have about PFOA and the products made with it. We invite you to explore the site and its resources. www.pfoa-facts.com

Belting

Associations

• National Industrial Belting Association - (NIBA)
• NIBA-The Belting Association is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations who have joined together to further the interests of all fabricators, distributors and manufacturers of belting and related products.

• Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association – (CEMA)
  • CEMA’s purpose is to promote among its members and the industry standardization of design manufacture and application on a voluntary basis and in such manner as will not impede development of conveying machinery and component parts or lessen competition. Its vision is that CEMA aspires to be the Association representing the leading North American manufacturers and designers of conveyor equipment systems and accessories. CEMA will be considered the resource for conveyor safety dimensional and application standards. CEMA actively promotes the capabilities of its members worldwide.
• International Association of Plastics Distributors (IAPD)
  • The International Association of Plastics Distributors, founded in 1956, is an international trade association comprised of companies engaged in the distribution and manufacture of plastics materials. Represented are materials in semi-finished stock shapes, such as sheet, rod, tube, pipe, valves, fittings, film and related products. Members' materials are produced and distributed for a wide variety of engineering and high performance applications, in such industries as food processing and packaging, OEM parts and equipment, chemical processing, waste and water treatment, construction, MRO parts, agriculture, automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, aerospace, electronics, marine, signs and displays, and many more.

Pressure Sensitive Tape Coating and Converting Information

Associations

• TAPPI
  • TAPPI is the leading technical association for the worldwide pulp, paper, and converting industry. Founded in 1915, TAPPI has grown into the world’s largest professional association serving the pulp, paper, and converting industries. TAPPI’s members look to the association for information, education, and knowledge-sharing opportunities. As a professional technical society, TAPPI is in a unique position to offer a wide array of information, products, services, and opportunities unparalleled in the pulp, paper and converting industry.
• Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC)
  • The membership of the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) is made up of 29 North American companies which manufacture pressure sensitive adhesive tape for industrial applications. More than 2,500 tape products are manufactured and marketed internationally by PSTC member companies.

OTHER

• Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFIA)
• The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) is a not-for-profit trade association whose more than 2,000 member companies represent the international specialty fabrics marketplace. Member companies range in size from one-person shops to multinational corporations; members' products span the entire spectrum of the specialty fabrics industry, from fiber and fabric suppliers to manufacturers of end products, equipment and hardware.