Fabricator

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Any partnership, corporation, or a division, subsidiary or department of a company who is engaged in downstream fabrication of plastic sheet, rod, tube, film, resin, pipe, fittings and valves. Eligible fabricators include companies that bend, machine, weld or bond stock plastic; or are engaged in film conversion. Companies that would be eligible for membership are fabricators, machine shops and film converters.

  • Solidly your materials connections with access to performance plastics manufacturers
  • Prime access to plastics distributors who are calling on thousands of end users, provide raw materials and are in need of fabrication services
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 magazine, 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

Any partnership, corporation, or a division, subsidiary or department of a company who is engaged in downstream fabrication of plastic sheet, rod, tube, film, pipe, valves and fittings. Eligible fabricators include companies that bend, machine, weld or bond stock plastic; or are engaged in film conversion. Companies that would be eligible for membership are fabricators, machine shops and film converters.

Fabricator members must subscribe to IAPD’s Code of Ethics, and meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
(a) Derives at least 51 percent of revenues from value-added services (excluding cutting), such as bending, gluing, welding, routing, assembly, forming, milling, turning, slitting, sheeting, laminating, etc. on plastics materials; and
(b) Purchases at least US$1 million of plastic materials through plastics distribution or plastics manufacturing; and
(c) Has been engaged in plastics processing for one or more years; and
(d) Provides three reference letters from plastics distributors or manufacturers attesting to the commitment of the organization to the plastics distribution channel, qualification of IAPD membership and verification that the applicant purchases plastic sheet, rod, tube, film or pipe, valves and fittings through plastics distributors or plastics manufacturers.

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.

Code of Ethics