Distributor

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Any partnership, corporation, or a division, subsidiary or department of a company who is engaged in the stocking and wholesale distribution of plastics sheet, rod, tube, film, resin, pipe, fittings and valves.

  • Take part in an organization founded to protect the best interest of the distributor in the supply chain
  • Access to products and services created to benefit performance plastics distributors
  • Network with performance plastics manufacturers and distributors to share ideas and best practices
Influence
  • Shape the industry through active involvement
  • Use of the IAPD member logo on your website
  • Shows you’re committed to excellence, a code of ethics and the industry in general
  • Awards for excellence
  • Free placement for press releases, product releases and literature promotions
Access
  • The manufacturing channel for plastics stock shapes and PVF, including resin manufacturers/distributors, manufacturers and fabricators
  • A channel that brings your products to the OEMs/MROs
  • An “on the ground” sales force through manufacturers, your first point of contact in the supply chain
  • Business partners, technical specification resources, supplier and machining resources
Training
  • IAPD Plastics Certificate Programs
  • Free webinars
  • Technical sessions
  • Quarterly economic reports
  • Plastics property tables
  • AEA University of Innovative Distribution discounts
  • NAW discounts
Advocacy
  • IAPD promotes the sustainability of performance plastics to local and national legislators and regulators
  • IAPD presents a powerful unified voice for the industry with the IAPD Plastics Political Action Committee (PAC)
Cost Savings & Benefits
  • Free subscriptions for your key staff to critical information resources such as Performance Plastics, the top publication exclusively for and about the plastics distribution industry
  • Free registration to IAPD’s monthly webinars
  • Free listing in the IAPD Membership Directory and IAPD Source Guide (both in print and online)
  • 40% discount on educational offerings such as registrations for the annual IAPD Convention and the IAPD Plastics Certificate Programs
  • 40% discount on exhibit booth rates
  • 15% discount on print and online advertising
  • IAPD member rates for affiliated programs (e.g., insurance)

 

Membership Qualifications

Sec. 1A. 
Distributor Membership. Any partnership, corporation, or a division, subsidiary or department of a company who is engaged in the stocking and wholesale distribution of plastics (e.g., sheet, rod, tube, film, resin, pipe, fittings and valves). Distributor members must subscribe to IAPD’s Code of Ethics and meet all of the following eligibility requirements: 

(a) Owns and stocks at least US $250,000 in raw plastic material inventory at all times, for general sale, across all physical
locations; and 
(b) Distributes for three or more plastics manufacturers by performing the normally accepted functions of warehousing, selling and invoicing plastics, supplies and accessories to customers; and 
(c) Has been engaged in plastics distribution for one or more years with a total minimum annual plastics distribution sales
of at least $1,000,000; and 
(d) Derives at least 50 percent of the company’s gross plastics sales from wholesale distribution or has at least US$5 million dollars in
total company revenues from such sales; and 
(e) Provides three reference letters from manufacturers attesting to the commitment of the organization to the plastics distribution channel, qualification of IAPD membership and verification that the applicant warehouses, sells and invoices plastics supplies and accessories to customers for the manufacturer.

Exceptions to any of the foregoing requirements for any category of membership may be made by the Board of Directors upon its determination that the particular circumstances will not be to the detriment of the Association or the applicant.

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