The Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative conducted an analysis of the economic impact of plastics products manufacturing in Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania. The Economic and Workforce Brief produced from this analysis provides a benchmark for...

Although manufacturing, in general, is declining in the United States, plastics manufacturing is growing in many regions of Pennsylvania. Plastics firms in Pennsylvania supply more than one-half of the plastics materials required by Pennsylvania's fastest growing industries. At the same time,...

Between 2004 and 2017, Pensylvania is forecast to lose employment and experience declining numbers of job opening in occupations in its plastics manufacturing industry as a result of manufacturing productivity increases and in spite enjoying advantage relative to the entire US in delivered...