Our Difference
Why Trade With Us
ThermoPlastic Trading Inc.’s mission is to trade raw material with integrity by infusing each transaction with value through experience and professionalism.
Thermoplastic Trading’s ownership is committed to our client’s success. With over 50+ years of combined plastic trading experience; we offer to help you win in the competitive plastic marketplace.
We Listen Intently
We ask probing insightful questions and carefully listen to your answers so we may fully understand what you, our client, needs. Our experienced technical oriented owners create matches that work for both parties with our proprietary “Insta-Match” software.
We professionally and appropriately market materials utilizing the “highest and best use” theory of strategic material marketing..
You Deserve Better
Many claim they buy and sell material. Few competitors choose to market materials honestly, or pay their invoices on time. Doing the right deal for everyone involved supersedes all. We view potential transactions from the perspective of its impact on our long-term relationship. If it works we will work it, if not we pass. When was the last time you heard that? Keeping you as a client is our top priority
Our Pledge to You
Customer Pledge
We fully guarantee every pound we sell. Our clients benefit from dependable representation of materials at competitive prices, honest weights with exemplary customer service.
To place the right material into the correct application every time.
To accurately provide you our client with information about the contents without omission or misrepresentation.
To provide you with lower priced quality regrind facilitating your ability to successfully compete for orders.
ThermoPlastic Trading works with honest, fair-minded people who operate with integrity; we leave others to do the rest.
ThermoPlastic Trading guarantees our material for a full 30 days
Vendor Pledge
ThermoPlastic Trading will market your material with honesty, and integrity.
ThermoPlastic Trading continues to pay every invoice early or within terms; and we can prove it with superior credit rating!
ThermoPlastic Trading is 100% accurate and truthful with our weights.
ThermoPlastic Trading is large enough to trade material on the world stage yet small enough to afford suppliers with personal attention to every facet of each transaction.
Our Team
Sharon Schiff, President, Sales, Accounting
Sharon graduated from Ohio State with a BA in sales and merchandising. She started her career as a pharmaceutical rep and worked for several medical companies. After 13 years she joined the family business to buy and sell plastics.
In 2009 along with her partners they opened ThermoPlastic Trading where she serves as President, along with her role in sales and accounting.
Mark Rosenfield, Treasurer, Logistics, Sales
Mark graduated from Suffolk University with a BS/BA degree in marketing. After graduation, he worked for a few years as a buyer of men’s clothing for Filene’s, following by a couple years on Wall St. Following Wall St, he sold real estate for several years in Boston.
When that boom market was over, he serendipitously found himself in the plastics industry in 1992, and in 2009, along with two industry colleagues, started ThermoPlastic Trading, where as an owner, he is the Treasurer, with responsibilities in Credit Management, Logistics & Sales.
Mark’s out of work passions are as a musician and a martial artist.
Dale Schiff, Owner, Sales Manager
Dale is a graduate with a BS in sales and marketing from Ferris State University. He worked for Bristol Myers for several years but then found his life’s work in Plastics. Dale has been trading plastics for over 41 years, and brought his experience and knowledge in 2009 into his new role as owner and sales manager at ThermoPlastic Trading.
Outside of work his passions are art and photography.
Bill Lawson, Sales
After receiving a BS in Business Administration from Cumberland College in 1964, Bill worked for 19 years for Ford Motor Company in production management. Leaving Ford, Bill worked for the University of Kentucky as a Purchasing Agent until retirement.
After retirement, Bill became involved in the plastics recycling business with a local company. In 2013 Bill brought his knowledge of the industry to ThermoPlastic Trading.