Find Replacement Plastics Within Minutes!

With Alternative Resins Search, it's amazingly simple to:

• Find offsets for discontinued materials
• Uncover lower cost replacement plastics
• Locate better-performing resins

"The Prospector search engine for polymers is addictive -
there is simply nothing like your product anywhere, and
Alternative Resins Search provides value worth paying for!"
Michael Sepe, Consultant and Monthly Columnist
for Injection Molding Magazine

"The Alternative Resins Search worked great for us. It helped us sort everything out quickly and save time, and frustration." Matt Keller, Design Engineer,
Slingshot Product Development Group

"Nypro buys a wide variety of materials from different manufacturers. Rather than spending a lot of time trying to find the information that I need on various websites, I'm able to use IDES Prospector to quickly locate datasheets and search for alternative resins that meet the current material specifications. It's quick, easy, one-stop shopping providing a way for me to get the information I need." Scott Townsend, Sourcing Agent, Nypro

"I'm impressed - I now rely exclusively on Alternative Resin Search and find that I don't need my plastics cross reference sheets anymore." Bob Hatch, Author & Molding Troubleshooter, On the Road with Bob Hatch

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Product Description

Alternative Resins Search is an enhanced search that automatically analyzes property data for the material you are currently using against an exponential amount of property data for 82025 grades and produces a ranked list of possible replacements for you to review.

Ranking information is presented on a relative scale - a rank of 100% shows the best correlation within the search results, and 0% shows the worst possible correlation. To ensure you select the best replacement plastic, the process helps you compare your material with 4 other materials side-by-side in a datasheet. You can also alter your search criteria by additive, agency rating or a number of other properties based on the information available from the original grade's datasheet such as density, melt mass flow rate, melt volume flow rate, mold shrinkage, flexural modulus, tensile elongation, tensile strength, notched izod impact strength, rockwell hardness, DTUL, vicat softening temperature, volume restivity, transmittance, haze, flame rating, etc.

Discover how to cover all of your bases through a simple step-by-step process to replace the plastic you're using within minutes!

With Alternative Resins Search, you can instantly gain from these invaluable benefits:

• Browse, filter and compare materials from a full list of possible alternatives
• Customize alteratives search criteria and ranking to help you choose
  the best material for your application
• Easy to use and you're within minutes from an answer saving you time
• Keeps production going
• Can save you thousands of dollars (or even more!)

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Let us know which material you'd like to replace & we'll email you a comparison datasheet with a possible alternative resin - the more info you provide, the better we can help you: