We sold plastic stock shapes and fabricated plastic parts from some of the world’s best manufacturers of plastic materials.

George retired from G S Sales December 31, 2022.  Since that time we have been doing training for some distributors via MS Teams and consulting for a few manufacturers.  Please let us know if we can help you. 

The companies we have been fortunate to represent have named replacements.  Contact them to find you who your sales contacts are.  G S Sales will closed as a Manufacturers’ Representative Agency in mid 2023.

GS Sales was started on January 1st of 1991, shortly after George Southard and his family returned to the Midwest from Pittsburgh where he had been Vice President of Sales for Solidur Plastics from 1985 until January 1991. He started GS Sales with Solidur’s support until they were bought out by a competitor. Prior to working for Solidur, George started his career with Poly Hi in 1979 and also spent time at Artek, Inc.

We have always strived to meet our mission statement of “Expanding the Demand for Performance Plastics through Education and Consultation” We continue to work to accomplish this through many lunch and learns at customers.  We have also done over 35 on sight seminars for IAPD throughout North America and in Italy for EPDA.  We have also conducted 6 Webinars for IAPD. 

We have also been very good fortune to volunteer and be involved with our association the International Association of Plastics Distribution.  We have been able to serve on the Board of Directors for 6 years; Chair the Marketing Committee for 6 years, Chair the Education Committee for 2 years and still serve on the committee many years later.   We also Chaired the Editorial Committee for 2 years and still serve on the committee.  We also served on the Scholarship Committee for 6 years.   

It has also been an honor and humbling to be recognized for our volunteer work with the International Association of Plastics Distribution (IAPD).  We have been awarded a Lifetime Membership in IAPD in 2022, the Pacesetter Award in 1994, The Good Egg Award in 2005 and the Paul Davis Award of Merit in 2007.  We are very proud and appreciative of this recognition.  There are many volunteers who do many good things for this organization that we are thankful for.   IAPD is a driving force behind educating our new Plastic Professionals and I encourage everyone to get involved in the association.

GS Sales Represented the following product lines.  I encourage you to support these manufacturers :