The Industrial Steel Drum Institute (ISDI), formerly known as the Steel Shipping Container Institute (SSCI), is a North American non-profit trade association representing manufacturers of steel drum containers in the United States, Canada and Mexico.  ISDI’s mission is to promote the common interests of its members through government relations, technical research, education and information exchange, media relations, and generic marketing programs.  ISDI represents the industry before federal agencies and the U.S. Congress, acts as liaison with other industry groups and individual corporations, and plays an active role with international organizations, including the U.N. Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.  In performing these functions, ISDI continues the tradition of cooperation first established in 1944, when 26 companies banded together to form SSCI. This cooperation enables industrial packaging manufacturers to realize operational, regulatory and marketing benefits that member companies cannot attain individually.  Through its affiliation with other industry groups, the interests of ISDI members are alongside makers of other industrial packaging and around the world: