Working Together for YOU!

 

and Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)

As two of the foremost membership organisations serving the polymer industry for many years, RAPRA and the SPE have always striven to advance the science and engineering that underpins the latest developments in materials, products and applications.

For some considerable time, the two organisations have been co-operating informally at all levels to improve the effectiveness of important initiatives. This has been helped by the fact that there remains no competition between us for members, as the SPE is focussed on Individuals and RAPRA offers Corporate Memberships. The excellent relationship resulting from years of working together for the greater good of our members in the industry has delivered tangible benefits to polymer engineers and companies worldwide.

The recognition that there might be even more to be mutually gained by further developing the SPE/RAPRA working relationship, has led to the signing of a formal agreement between the two organisations.

A key function of the agreement is to capture and document the areas where we have collaborated most successfully so that this can be communicated internally within RAPRA and the SPE. Importantly, it also recognises the unique features of both organisations that must be preserved.

In addition, the agreement provides a clear message to the polymer industry of how they will benefit from an association, possibly through membership, with both organisations.

Look out in the future for much more obvious signs of us exploiting the successful collaboration between SPE and RAPRA such as joint branding on events and special reciprocal deals for members of both organisations.

Steve Shaw

Operations Director

RAPRA Limited

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Dear RAPRA Member, The Society of Plastics Engineers wish to extend valuable SPE benefits to RAPRA member companies at no extra cost! Adding MORe value to your RAPRA membership when you renew.

Discounts on world class, International Conferences like ANTEC® – now coming to a continent near you (after a very successful 2011 with EUROTEC in Barcelona and ASIATEC in Tokyo) ; webinars; free copies of Plastics Engineering magazine; free downloads of peer reviewed papers; and regular e-Newsletters, can all be yours for a few RAPRA MORe points!

If you are interested in giving back to the industry, via a charitable donation to encourage the young to join our industry, the SPE Foundation awards over $250,000 each year to students and schools, as well as funding science and engineering educational projects: For the last two years, SPE has funded teachers to attend the Polymer Study Tours run by the Worshipful Company of Horners at London Metropolitan, Manchester and Napier Universities.

Individual SPE memberships are now available through RAPRA, redeemable via the RAPRA MORe points system. Donations to the SPE Foundation can also be claimed back from RAPRA MORe points – all you need is a receipt!

All donations will be acknowledged by SPE and, should enough RAPRA members commit to donate, SPE could set up a special fund or regular scholarship(s) named after RAPRA. SPE’s Foundation would bear all the administrative costs on behalf of RAPRA, so everything you donate goes to the worthy recipient(s). This would attract extra publicity for RAPRA and the companies who donate.

When you renew your RAPRA Membership, think carefully about how your RAPRA MORe points could be traded to add MORe valuable benefits, at no extra cost to you!

Kind regards

Karen Hately

SPE Europe Director