Sean Mullen on manufacturing
From MUST WATCH: Mullin Confronts Anti-Plastics Witness About All The Things She Has Containing Plastic · · Forbes Breaking News
“Middle class wages typically come directly from manufacturing. What is it that we're manufacturing that doesn't have plastic in it today? Nothing. And you know what it would increase the cost of everything if we turn to an alternative and it would disproportionately impact low-income people who have lower incomes. It would be another regressive tax on the poor.”
On , Sean Mullen, Chief Growth Officer at AMENTUM HOLDINGS INC, spoke about manufacturing during MUST WATCH: Mullin Confronts Anti-Plastics Witness About All The Things She Has Containing Plastic on Forbes Breaking News.
About Sean Mullen
Sean Mullen, Chief Growth Officer at Lumentum Holdings, participated in a 2023 Senate Environment Committee hearing where he questioned a witness who advocated for ending plastic manufacturing. Mullen argued that modern manufacturing, including automotive production, depends on plastics and that eliminating the industry would harm economic mobility and disproportionately affect low-income communities. He cited the example of Nissan’s plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, as a case where industrial growth lifted a community out of poverty, and stated that poverty itself causes worse health outcomes and trauma. In a 2012 interview, Mullen discussed his role as chair of The Open Group Security Forum while at IBM. He outlined plans to expand security standards into cloud and virtualization, and noted the approval of the ARMOR specification for role-based access control across Unix systems. Mullen also described work on the Automatic Compliance Expert Markup Language (OSML) to automate compliance with regulations like SOX and PCI, and efforts to integrate security initiatives into the next version of the TOGAF enterprise architecture framework.