Mission Statement

The New England Rubber & Plastics Group, part of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society, will provide organizations the opportunity to improve and exchange information among chemists, engineers, and other professionals interested in the area of rubber and plastics chemistry and engineering.

We will organize and conduct symposiums on special topics in the area of rubber and plastics chemistry at times and places designated by the executive committee of the organization. We assist in the arrangement of programs dealing with rubber and plastics related areas of chemistry and engineering for meetings of the American Chemical Society: Rubber Division.

We provide opportunities for individual members to develop personally and professionally through participation in activities of the organization in cooperation with the ACS Rubber Division and with other scientific and professional organizations whose interests are parallel or overlap those of the organization in scientific, technological, educational, and professional matters.

The NERPG is a technically oriented professional organization. It promotes personal relationships between those in education, polymer manufacturing, supply of additives, compounding, processing, and marketing of products and provides a regional network that aids in problem-solving.

Our antecedents, the Boston and Rhode Island Rubber Groups, were similarly corporate members of the Rubber Division with many mutual members. In 2006, the merger began with the formation of a joint Board of Directors. It was completed in 2007 with the NERPG, Inc. registered as a nonprofit corporation of Massachusetts.