Membership Benefits

Advantages of PSSMA Membership

If your company is involved in the multiwall paper shipping sack industry, either as a manufacturer of industrial shipping sacks or consumer bags with paper content or as a supplier of goods or services to those who make these multiwall sacks in the United States, then the Paper Shipping Sack Manufacturers’ Association is your best opportunity for: 

  • Easy and economical access to others in the industry in a legal forum where compliance with U.S. antitrust law is a high priority
  • Access to extensive shipping sack statistical information and market research not available elsewhere
  • A means to participate in shaping policies on issues important to the well being of the multiwall industry and companies like yours who are impacted by those policies
  • An opportunity to benefit from industry promotional activities on matters that cannot be addressed effectively by individual companies.
  • Access to two meetings per year that are tightly focused on topics of strategic, economic, safety, operational, environmental and technical importance to the paper shipping sack industry, and provide the opportunity to network with other members in settings monitored for antitrust compliance.

Regular Membership

Regular Membership is for all U.S. manufacturers of paper sacks and bags, including multiwall, special use single-wall, retail grocery bags and quick service retail style bags. PSSMA members are responsible for some 90% of U.S. production of multiwall sacks, representing more than $1 billion in annual sales.

Apply to be a Regular Member

Associate Membership

Associate Membership is for companies that supply goods or services to Regular Members of PSSMA. It is a vital component of support for the U.S. multiwall industry. PSSMA continues to place a high priority on providing greater value for Associate Members and has seen its associate membership grow in response.

Apply to be an Associate Member
Benefits of Regular Membership
  • PSSMA Board of Directors: Each Regular Member holds a seat on the Board of Directors to engage in the governance of the association.
  • Statistical Reports: Regular members provide monthly statistical data and receive statistical reports tailored. for their individual company on aggregated historical sack shipments and related business activity, such as inventory, order backlogs, etc. Regular members also receive monthly statistics on paper consumption, including imports of paper and laminated woven sacks and bleached and unbleached kraft paper. Member data are strictly confidential.
  • Surveys: Regular members participate in surveys to learn valuable industry information not elsewhere available, such as safety performance, industry capacity, etc.
  • Member Dues: Regular member dues are based upon multiwall paper sack and consumer bag sales. Minimum dues are $3,750 per year. The dues rate is discounted for sales over $25 million per year.
  • PSSMA Production Managers’ Seminars/Annual Meetings/Bag Boot Camp: Associate Members may attend PSSMA Production Managers’ Seminars, the PSSMA Annual Meetings, and the annual Bag Boot Camp event. In addition to the networking opportunities at receptions and dinners, one-on-one meetings may be scheduled to facilitate supplier/producer interaction. Attendance limitations apply.
    • PSSMA regularly schedules its annual Production Managers’ Seminar at a location to facilitate tours of members’ facilities.
Benefits of Associate Membership
  • Associate Membership provides an effective and economical way to:
    • Establish and maintain relationships with U.S. multiwall sack and consumer bag producers
    • Monitor important industry trends and developments
    • Support the development of policies and programs beneficial to the U.S. multiwall industryon paper consumption and sack shipments for twenty market segments, as well as detailed monthly information on imports of multiwall sacks and paper, paper consumption and business activity trends.
  • Statistical Reports: Associate members receive monthly and quarterly statistical reports on paper consumption and sack shipments for twenty market segments, as well as detailed monthly information on imports of multiwall sacks and paper, paper consumption and business activity trends.
  • PSSMA Production Managers’ Seminars/Annual Meetings/Bag Boot Camp: Associate Members may attend PSSMA Production Managers’ Seminars, the PSSMA Annual Meetings, and the annual Bag Boot Camp event. In addition to the networking opportunities at receptions and dinners, one-on-one meetings may be scheduled to facilitate supplier/producer interaction. Attendance limitations apply.
    • PSSMA regularly schedules its annual Production Managers’ Seminar at a location to facilitate tours of members’ facilities.

For more information or to apply for Associate Membership, please contact PSSMA by email at [email protected] or call us at 610-282-6845.