plastics industry
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- noun
- /ˈplæstɪks ˈɪndəstri/
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industria de plásticos
- The FDA banned BPA from sippy cups and baby bottles this summer, but only after the plastics industry requested the action as part of an effort to reassure consumers.
Examples
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Some designs are impossible to machine, particularly in the plastics industry, where manufacturers have to create molds for products.
Academic text (1994) -
Like other industries, firms in the plastics industry occupy different places along a spectrum of sophistication.
Academic text (2005) -
"There is 10 to 100 times as much wood available as the plastics industry could ever use," reports English.
Academic text (1996) -
The plastics industry had a somewhat accidental birth.
Academic text (2007) -
Those compounds were the basis for Io's emerging plastics industry.
Fiction book (2000) -
Research finds women in the automotive plastics industry face a five-fold higher risk of developing breast cancer.
Blog text (11) -
The dangers of plastic in the aquatic ecosystem are recognized by both scientists and the plastics industry.
Blog text (2) -
Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry.
Blog text (19) -
While wood-derived fillers may find a niche in the plastics industry, fillers account for less than a four million pound per year market.
Academic text (1996) -
The plastics industry is working to develop biodegradable alternatives to traditional materials.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'plastics' names the material and 'industry' names the sector producing goods, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the manufacturing sector for plastics. This noun+noun compounding is common cross-linguistically and follows a standard English pattern, making the meaning transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase plastics industry comes from the material name plastic, a word that originally meant 'able to be shaped', and industry, meaning the 'business' of making things. Imagine a factory where people shape soft plastic into bottles, bags and toys, so the phrase now means the businesses that make plastic materials and items.