Report: US plastics industry seeing growth in employment, plant expansions
January 18, 2017
A new report from the Plastics Industry Association offers a generally positive economic outlook for the industry, noting that employment is growing after some steep declines, and that shale gas-related investments should help plastics fare better than other manufacturing sectors.
The association’s 2016 Size & Impact Report, released Jan. 11, said that employment rose 1.4 percent to 954,000 in 2015, the last year for which figures are available, and it said that U.S. demand for plastics hit a record $295.4 billion that year.