General Info

Welcome to plastics.com Who?... Us? Serving the needs of the professionals representing all segments of the global plastics industry, plastics.com is the world's largest online plastics community with over 70, 000 members and features technical advice, blogs, calendars, resources, articles, news, forums and a marketplace. Since it's inception in 1994 the plastics.com portal has continually experienced robust traffic. In 2008 traffic included almost 120, 000 unique visitors with over eight million page views. It is privately-held with facilities in Indiana and Massachusetts. It is privately-held with facilities in Indiana and Massachusetts. It's that simple with us. One unique differentiator that you'll always see with us is that our site serves the plastics professional, and communities is the focal point of how we do this. Since our inception way back in 1994, it has always been about you, the user. It's not about the advertiser or partner, even though we have those. It's not about the selling in the marketplace, even though we have that. Our design, our experience, is geared to the user, the user's comfort and the user's usefulness. Most sites are horrifically all about themselves and their blatant, in your face BUY THIS, BUY THAT. Here at plastics.com we want to present you with a social and professional environment where you can gather information you need and make valuable contacts, even friends. Plastics has and PlasticsEdge . These two programs are for companies in the plastics industry who wish to drive sales leads from plastics.com to the partner, as well as the powerful branding strength these products have. Plastics.com's marketplace is the place our users go to research a purchase or to directly purchase plastics related products and services. The marketplace holds direct selling links as well as a hierarchial database of plastics industry suppliers.