UL IDES Prospector Database

A materials search engine that includes:
• 85715 plastic material datasheets
• 901 global plastic manufacturers
• 46,092 UL yellow cards
• Plastics additives & equipment
• Availability in 6 Languages

Datasheets provide mechanical, physical,
processing, and supplier contact information.

Prospector Plastic Materials Database

The Prospector Plastic Materials Database is a search engine of 85715 plastic material datasheets and 46,092 UL yellow cards from 901 global plastic manufacturers. The search engine is available in 6 languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and German. Each datasheet includes material property and processing information, and contact information for both the manufacturer and each product's resin distributors.

Learn About UL IDES Prospector Features:

Property Search	Automotive Plastics Search	Medical Plastics Search
Alternative Resins Search	Multipoint Curve Data Search	Biopolymers Search

Datasheet Services for Plastic Manufacturers & Distributors

Our Datasheet Services put The Power of Prospector on your website, enabling your customers to search and display your material datasheets and UL yellow cards.

	Datasheet Services for Plastic Manufacturers Providing your customers and website visitors with an easy way to search on your website for your products will keep them coming back.
	Datasheet Services for Resin Distributors Helping your customers find your datasheets is incredibly important. It's also important that the technical information from your suppliers is accurate.
	UL Yellow Card Plugin Give your customers and team members direct access to intuitive ways to search and display your UL-rated plastics.

Plastic Advertising & Sponsorship Opportunities

Our advertising services can help you reach 381,592 qualified plastics professionals. On average, 150 new people register with us each business day which continually grows our audience.

	Plastic Advertising UL IDES has the largest and most active audience in the plastics industry. We offer lead generation services, webinar sponsorship, featured listings in Prospector, custom landing pages, newsletter sponsorship, and brand advertising.
	Prospector Lead Generation We provide a service that lets you know real-time who is accessing each of your products in our search engine. This can give you a deep understanding of exactly who's engaging, when, and to what extent.

UL IDES provides materials information services including a searchable database of plastics called Prospector. 381,592 people in the plastics industry rely on Prospector as the industry standard for plastic material selection. Using this online tool, they are able to quickly access material property and processing information, saving time finding the best plastics for their applications. Our datasheet management technologies help plastics manufacturers and resin distributors manage and share technical information about their products.

Founded in 1986 and based in Laramie, we are part of UL (Underwriters Laboratories).