The Plastics Academy celebrated its Plastics Hall of Fame inductees at a banquet and ceremony Monday night during NPE in Chicago.
The inductees were featured on the front page of Plastics News' June 19 show edition. The Plastics Academy administers the Plastics Hall of Fame, which is housed in the Plastics Museum in Leominster, Mass.
After the induction ceremony, the new members lined up to be photographed. Jack Koenig, center, holds a framed Plastics News mock-up of the front page on which they are featured.
>From left to right, they are:
* Gottfried Mehnert
* Pak-Wing "Steve" Chum
* Dieter Freitag
* Jack L. Koenig
* Robert Schad
* Peter Bemis
*Not pictured here: Georg Menges of Germany and Jack Welch, both of whom were unable to attend.