Our multi-national team of over 500 employees services over 25,000 customers across North America in all segments of commercial, industrial and advertising activity. We offer a comprehensive network of service centers and inventories with an extensive product range including such major segments as acrylics and polycarbonates, graphics materials (substrates and a variety of higher end materials) and mechanical/engineering materials (UHMW, LDPE, HDPE, nylons, acetals).

Our Team:

Laird Plastics provides comprehensive supply chain coordination to the industry's leading manufacturers.

This includes product representation on performance and selection, transportation, storage and delivery. Increasingly, we are finding opportunities to service customers with needs across multiple locations who are looking to reduce the total costs of their supply chain. Through decentralized commercial activity, a genuine focus on safety, quality and productivity, and an extensive support and training network we seek to attract, motivate and retain the best wholesale distribution people to serve this exciting and growing global marketplace.

Our History:

2009
Laird Plastics opens North American Recycling Center. With a charter to reduce the volume of Plastics that find their way to North American landfills, Laird grows to 52 locations.
2006
Modern Plastics joins Laird. In March Laird purchases Modern Plastics. Modern adds four facilities to Laird's count, including Brideport, CT; Springfield, MA; Warwick, RI; and Peabody (Boston), MA.
2004
Laird Plastics changes ownership. A group of Chicago-based investors purchase the Laird Plastics Division from The Laird Group PLC.
1991
Forming of "Laird Plastics." Company named "Laird Plastics" and headquarter operations moved from Long Island City, NY to West Palm Beach, FL.
1981
Acquisition of Almac Plastics. Laird entered the plastics distribution business with the acquisition of Almac Plastics, which had been formed in 1944 by Mac and Mayme Lewis.