Plastics News will run a report on diversity, equity and inclusion in the plastics industry on Monday, February 26, 2024.
We'd like to know what your company is doing to promote a more diverse business so we can share some of these best practices with more firms in the issue. Please head over to www.plasticsnews.com/DiversityIssue and fill out a survey to get started. Nominations due Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
View previous diversity special report issues from 2023, 2022 and 2021.
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U.S.-based suppliers lose access to workers who are waiting on visas for highly qualified foreign labor.
Novolex's strategy is structured around the pillars of leadership commitment and accountability, recruitment, growth and development, inclusive culture, and supplier diversity.
Westminster Tool is developing strategies involving career fairs, high school student engagement and targeted career awareness campaigns.
In this year's diversity special report, I'm looking forward to hearing about initiatives that companies have taken, hurdles they've faced and best practices they've developed to become more inclusive.
A more welcoming workplace helps companies attract workers, workers that can provide a fresh perspective on end markets or best practices on the manufacturing floor.
SPE has received a $200,000 grant to join the Molding Workforce Inclusion program for workers with disabilities.
Allen Jonathan Roman says representation is "crucial for having an increased interest in the field of plastics from historically underrepresented communities."
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation's Sovereign Pipe Technologies will manufacture water and telecom infrastructure pipes to build the Oklahoma community and modernize U.S. systems.
Rocky Barrett: "Four generations of Potawatomi lost everything they had except what they could carry on their back. ... I'm trying to get us back on a par with the rest of the country."
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