Jay L. Gardiner, a tireless volunteer for plastics causes, has been active in service to the industry for more than two decades. He founded Gardiner Plastics Inc., a small resin brokerage in Port Jefferson, N.Y., in 1992.

A longtime member of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Gardiner was chairman of Antec in 1989 and president of the society in 1996. He was a principal author of SPE’s 2000 Strategic Action Plan while a member of the executive committee.

Gardiner was a longtime member of the board of directors and executive committee of the National Plastics Center in leominster, Massachusetts. Since 1998, he has served as president of the Plastics Academy. He also has worked on strategic planning projects for SPI.

He was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2012.

(updated 2/15/12/ - SDG)