What's in it for me?

The BPF is one of the UK's largest sector specific trade bodies with over 30 staff dedicated to delivering services to our members. As a result the member benefits are broad (see HERE for overview of key benefits)  and often hard to digest both for members and potential members. The BPF offer 100’s of services and understanding what is right for your organisation and individuals within the organisation is often hard. Below we offer an overview of ‘whats in it for you’ split by roles within organisations….

 

Business Development

• Regular, exclusive member surveys providing early market intelligence on business trends.  Surveys include the Business Conditions Survey, Supply Chain Surveys, Salary Surveys and Group Specific Benchmark Surveys
• Polymer Prices: Monthly updates from Polymer Information Europe, member only access to S&P Global commodity polymer data and regular free member only webinars
• Access to sector specific reports from the Construction Products Association
• Polymer specific market data and reports from 70+ countries
• Take part in exclusive tours of member firms (examples are here, here, here and here!) or visit plants abroad
• Around sixty, free webinars per year for your staff to learn about the industry and keep upto date with the latest trends and developments
• Access to information on 8,000+ grants and funds from across the UK, updated in real time and available at the BPF's Funding portal is announced

 

Export

• Discounts on participation in the British Pavilion at International Trade Shows where the BPF run British Pavilions (e.g. Chinaplas, K, Plastindia etc)
• Plastic specific information (including industry size production and consumption of polymers and main processing technologies) on over 70 countries
• Access to lists of 300+ plastic trade associations and 150+ editors on international trade magazines
• Ability to take part in trade missions (e.g. to China or India) as well as taking part in 'Mould Tours' for example to Italy
• Take part in regular exclusive, free webinars and in person events on key export markets (we have previously run events on Russia, Brazil, China and India amongst others)
• Input into relevant committees - we are currently inputting into Government on various Free Trade Agreements and during Brexit ran a highly effective Brexit Taskforce which amongst other things, established a Rules of Origin working group in collaboration with UK Government
   

Health and Safety

• Ability to join the BPF's Health and Safety Committee to meet with and share best practice with nearly 100 H&S professionals from across the industry
• Exclusive access to the BPF's Accident Survey enabling you to benchmark your companies performance against others in the industry
• Ability to sign up to Safety in the Manufacturing of PLastic (AKA "SIMPL")
• Anonymous H&S support from contemporaries in the plastics industry - simply complete an online form and your question will be sent anonymously to H&S professionals in the industry
• Ability to join the BPF's Fire Safety Committee or to ask the experts in the committee a question
• Access for you, or anyone else in your organisation to our quarterly Health and Safety bulletin
• Attend our free annual seminar on Health and Safety seminar and regular ad hoc free webinars which run throughout the year

HR & Legal

• Access to the BPF's legal support helpline (a 24/7 service manned by lawyers)
• Ability to post jobs (for free) to the industry leading job board - PolymerJobs.co.uk
• 50% off all eLearning courses at PolymerCourses.com
• Online Learning/Staff Training: Free access to 1,000's of technical papers from previous BPF seminars as well as a 'watch again' service for over 300 webinars
• Take part in the BPF Skills and Education Committee, made up of around 25 employers from the plastics industry working on a broad range of topics including academia outreach, education of school children and developing apprenticeships 
• Around sixty free webinars per year for your staff to learn about the industry and keep up to date with the latest trends and developments
• Ability to sign up to the BPF's monthly Skills & Education bulletins
• Sign up as a Career Ambassador to teach children and students about the exciting world of polymer

 

Marketing/Sales

• Submit your news stories to the BPF: We will share them on social media channels (including our 25,000+ followers between LinkedIn and Twitter), put them in our bi-monthly newsletter (circulation 5,000) and post them on our news section
• The BPF send around 1,300 sales leads per year to our members gathered through trade shows and our find a suppliers form
• Feature in the BPF's Member Directory:   Over 5,000 hard copies are handed out each year via trade shows (the BPF typically exhibit at 6-8 per year both in the UK and abroad) and through direct distribution to members.  In addition to 1,000's of online views.
• Special highlighted feature (BPF Members appear top in all searches) in the BPF Industry Directory - the UK's largest plastics industry directory featuring nearly 3,000 firms and receiving nearly half a million visitors a year
• Access to a downloadable list of 150+ international trade magazine, with email addresses of the editor
• Ability to submit articles for Plastipedia:  The top pages on which receive over 10,000 page views per month
• Submit articles to the BPF newsletter and group bulletins - our bi-monthly newsletter goes to 4,700 members
• Free webinars and seminars on topics such as SEO, international marketing and submitting press releases to plastics industry trade press
• Exclusive access to the largest networking event in the plastics industry - the BPF Annual Dinner
• Opportunity to sponsor key BPF events
• Massive (50%) discounts on adverts on the BPF website - with over 1 million page views a year
• Ability to use the BPF logo of literature and websites
• Exclusive access to table tops and literature displays
• Exclusive networking events featuring table top of BPF members
• Exclusive BPF Member discount of upto 30% for stand space at Interplas
• Ability to take part in British Pavilions around the world at discounted rates
• Access to the BPF Funding Portal - allows you to create and export reports pertinent to your business.  Many of our equipment companies for example use this tool to explain to customers what funds their are available to off set the costs of new machines

 

Operations

• Access to free webinars for all staff and our webinar archive with nearly 300 videos on a wide range of topics
• Books regularly posted to members including Managing Sustainability in Plastics Processing: A Quick Start Guide, Sustainability Management in Plastics Processing: Strategies, Targets, Techniques and Tools and Controlling Energy Use in Plastics Processing
• Ability to sign-up to, input into and help shape Operation Clean Sweep
• Access to huge discounts (58% on the industries Climate Change Agreement)
• On energy we have books, courses, energy prices, free webinars and seminars plus a 58% discount on the CCA
• Ability for any member of staff to join and participate in the BPF's Fire Safety Committee 
• Ability to join and input into the BPF's Productivity Committee including input into the BPF's ongoing Productivity Project, this includes ability to join the following working groups...
  • Automation
  • Digitisation
  • Equipment
  • Materials
  • Product Design
  • Tooling
• Ability to join and participate in the BPF's Health and Safety Commitee, take part in relevant events and input into work carried out by the committee e.g. Covid Guidance
• Ability to participate in the BPF factory tour programme visiting leading plants across the UK and overseas
• Ability to take part in the BPF Automotive Group (featuring major car producers, recyclers, moulders, equipment suppliers and raw material producers)
• Access to the BPF's Energy Weekly Reports  produced weekly exclusively for BPF members by LG Energy

 

Public Affairs

• Participation in the BPF's annual Parliamentary Reception, normally attracting 100+ members, 20+ MPs and Lords as well as speeches from leading Government Ministers
• Lobbying - targeted campaigns on specific issues
• Access to the BPF Parliamentary Communication Toolbox and specially produced MP Briefings enabling you to reach out to your local MP and provide upto date market intelligence
• Support with constituency MP engagement 
• Ability to input directly into the BPF for your points to be raised in regular meetings with the key Governmental Departments
• Access to BPF events run in conjunction with organisations such as the Enterprise Forum and the Industry and Parliament Trust
• Bi-monthly political and legislative updates via the BPF Newsletter as well as Group specific bulletins

 

Sustainability 

• Ability to join and take part in the BPF's Sustainability Committee and Net Zero Working Group
• Influence and financial support to Operation Clean Sweep - the industry's Zero Pellet Loss Programme
• Submit articles and add your companies commitments to the BPF's Net Zero Hub
• Feed into work the BPF is doing on Eco-Design such as our (in conjunction with Recoup) Design for Recyclability Guide, Packscore and online courses
• Input into BPF Publications such as 'Plastics: A Vision for a Circular Economy', 'Sustainability in the Plastics Supply Chain', 'Recycling Roadmap' and 'Net Zero for Plastic Processors: A Practical Guide to Delivering Net Zero'

 

Technical

• Ability to join and take part in various technical committees such as the food contact and the Product Safety Committee
• Receive legislative updates direct to your mailbox through BPF Group Bullets and the BPF bi-weekly Newsletter
• Download 1,000’s of technical papers given at seminars
• "Watch again" feature for nearly 300 webinars member exclusive webinars
• Massive discounts on online courses on topics such as product design and incorporation of recycled content
• Up to date information on REACH through our Product Safety Committee and regular REACH events

 

Other Key Benefits...
 

 

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