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The Plastics and Advanced Composite Materials Industry offers products made for uses including automotive, electrical, telecommunications, biomedical, packaging, construction and consumer durables. The industry products manufactured in Tucson include film, sheets, rods, tubes, pipes and foam.
The industry also offers processing methods including injection molding, blow molding and extrusion. Common end-use industries include automotive, electrical, telecommunications, bio-medical, packaging, construction and consumer durables.
Thirty-seven percent of plastics revenues are from international sales, primarily to maquiladora factories operating in Mexico.
Plastics & Advanced Composite Materials Industry Highlights
Tucson and Southern Arizona 
- 35 local companies
- 982 employees
- 23,206,000 annual payroll
- $123,746,000 value of shipments for 2002
(source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2004, NAICS 326, plastic and rubber products manufacturing 2002 Economic Census, Tucson, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Major Employers
(Source: Book of Lists 2008)
Education
- The Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Arizona has attracted a wide group of world class individuals to its faculty and has developed a pioneering and wide-ranging curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The Department offers graduate programs leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. More than 49 courses at all levels are offered.
- The department has research programs in areas as diverse as high tech ceramics, non-linear optical materials, sol-gel and biomemetic processing, and polymers in electronic packaging.
- In addition to the courses offered at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College offers many pre-engineering courses for direct transfer to the University of Arizona. Other courses are also offered in machine tool technology for use in tool and dye making for the injection molding industries.
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