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October 14, 2025 Professional Development Meeting
Please join ASCM Grand Rapids as Cody Bates presents about the ongoing wars and how they have affected the prices here in the US.
7:00 PM to 7:45 PM Presentation
7:45 Discussion/Q & A
The Zoom meeting link is below.
Cody will talk about the ongoing wars and how they have affected the prices here in the US more than people realize. The shutting down of the Persian Gulf has drawn down the strategic reserves of oil in each of the western countries. Now that a second front with the Houthi rebels has opened up, it has gotten worse. The bombing of a Saudi pipeline and the effective shutting down of the Red Sea also has caused another oil shortage.
The oil is ½ of the equation, but the second front is the lack of refining capacity worldwide. Russia used to be a huge exporter of distillates (liquids made from oil) and now the Ukrainians have bombed them so much that they have cut off distillate exports and are having shortages at home. This affects fuels, plastics, chemicals, fertilizers, and is running the price on everything up.
Cody Bates has 25 years of material sales and specific product development in the plastics industry. He specializes in custom material formulations of thermoplastic resins. For the last 24 years, he has been doing this on his own in conjunction with the ten plastics companies he currently represents: management of waste collection, treatment, and disposal facility under state and national agencies for RCRA regulated hazardous and non-hazardous wastes from a wide array of industries; consulting on waste contamination and material spills, both point and non-point source; expert witness for contested public hearings at the Railroad Commission of Texas, the organization that oversees the Texas oil and gas industry.
For questions or assistance with registration, please contact Erin, Chapter Admin: [email protected] or (616) 375-1166.
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