Charles Condit dedicated his entire adult life to the plastics industry, playing a major organizational role in the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI). He was born in Lima, Ohio, in 1915, and received a degree in chemistry from Jackson Junior College in Jackson, Michigan. He joined SPI in 1942 when the entire staff numbered four people, and for three decades was immersed in the evolving issues and markets for plastics and the growing activities of the society.

Early in his career, Condit administered the publication of the first edition of the SPI Plastics Engineering Handbook. He was responsible for forming, administering, and guiding several key SPI operating units and committees, and he directed more than 10 operating groups through periods of severe challenges and problems with deft managerial balance. He was the original organizer and director of the National Plastics Conference, the major technical forum related to SPI's National Plastics Exposition. Condit served for many years as the plastics industry's representative to the International Standards Organization (ISO), and he held committee chairmanships and made significant contributions to the development of procedures and methods for the plastics industry that govern worldwide practice today.

Condit was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 1991.

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