Rose Baker and David Passmore are co-directors of Benchmarking performance and competitiveness of the Pennsylvania plastics industry, a project within Pennsylvania plastics initiative: integrating workforce, economic development and education resources for a comprehensive industry response, which is a contract from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration to the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board and Penn State University. The Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative became incolved in this project during Fall 2006. The project is likely to continue through 2008.