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The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Banquet • The biggest nite at the NPE
Presented by The Plastics Academy
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Join your colleagues for the industry’s premier event
The Plastics Academy Hall of Fame gala will take place at NPE2009 on the evening of Monday, June 22, 2009 at McCormick Place in the West Building Ballroom. The program, in which new members are recognized and receive the highest honor of the plastics industry by being inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame, begins with a reception at 6:30 followed by Banquet and the induction ceremony.
And Ditka too!
This night of elegance will feature National Football League Hall of Fame member Mike Ditka as the keynote speaker. Attendees will have the opportunity to mix and mingle with the plastics industry most influential pioneers.
The Hall of Fame banquet is a charitable event!
The Plastics Academy Hall of Fame was founded in 1972 to administer and perpetuate the tradition of honoring individuals who have contributed significantly to the development of plastics or the plastics industry.
Past inductees from the ceremony held at NPE2006 include Peter Bemis of Bemis Manufacturing Company, Canada’s Robert Schad of Husky Injection Molding Systems and, from Germany, Dieter Freitag of Bayer AG, Gottfried Mehnert of Bekum GmbH, and Georg Menges of the IKV institute.
When
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
McCormick Place, West Building Ballroom
Table Reservations
Bronze Patron $4,000.00 (one table, seats 8)
Silver Patron $8,000.00 (two tables, seats 16)
Gold Patron $12,000.00 (three tables, seats 24)
Platinum Patron $16,000.00 (four tables, seats 32)
Individual Tickets
$300.00 per person
About the Plastics Academy and Hall of Fame
The Plastics Hall of Fame was established in 1972 by Modern Plastics magazine, in cooperation with The Society of the Plastics Industry, to recognize those who have contributed most significantly to the growth and success of the plastics industry.
Their intent was to honor the real movers of the industry by inducting them into The Plastics Hall of Fame. The official induction took place during a gala ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago during the National Plastics Exposition and Conference, November 5-9, 1973. It received widespread industry acceptance with more than 1,000 people attending the ceremony.
The specially created Hall of Fame award sculpture, which consists of three formed acrylic blades mounted circularly on an acrylic base, symbolizes “the outstanding leadership in the ever-changing plastics industry.”
In 1974 the concept was expanded to include posthumous induction into The Hall of Fame in order to honor great contributors to the plastics industry such as John Wesley Hyatt, the founder of the first plastics material, along with such other early pioneers. The awards were presented to the surviving widows of the new inductees or the companies with which they were predominantly associated.
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Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Banquet
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