Prospector Resin Blend August 2, 2006

In this issue:

• The Secret to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Plastics Marketing
• This Month's Featured Plastics Processors
• Plastics Search Report
• Resin Pricing Report
• Thermoplastics Report

Try this issue's featured search: Engineering Plastics

Thanks for your patience during a transition to the new Prospector. I hope that you found your complimentary access to Prospector's full-blown search features was beneficial to you and your company.

Although your account no longer includes complimentary access to Prospector's advanced search features, you can still add them to your account by contacting us

As always, thank you for your continued support of IDES products and services!

Warmest wishes,

Mike Kmetz, IDES President

This Month's Features Plastics Processors

Each month we highlight a few of our new plastics processors that have joined the Processor Portal on The Plastics Web®. This month, we'd like to welcome these molders:

• Performance Plastics Ltd.
  Based in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Performance Plastics specializes in custom injection molding and related manufacturing activities, focussing on engineering plastics.
• Certified Thermoplastics Co. Inc.
  They routinely extrude compounds of every thermoplastic resin from ABS to AMODEL® to PEEK to Polycarbonate to RADEL® to ULTEM® to Zytel®.
• LeVic Plastics Inc.
  Since 1972,they have continually strived to offer the most precise, workable and economical prototype research and production facilities available.

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Plastics Search Report

IDES runs reports on search trends in the plastics industry. All data is provided from our Prospector Search Engine and from our Vertical Search Engine for the Plastics Industry.

Below is a summary. The full report is available here.

Resin Pricing Report

A special thanks to those of you who have been actively submitting the price you've paid for plastic. Your information is confidential, yet extremely helpful to resin buyers in determining the market prices paid for plastic materials.

The report was last updated July 31, 2005 and is available here.

We invite you all to submit the price(s) you've paid for plastics here.

Thermoplastics Report

Thermoplastics are Largest, Fastest Growing Segment of the U.S. Cap, Closure Market

High-Heat Crastin PBT is Moving in on the Headlamp Bezel and is specified for the 2007 Ford Focus, Chevy HHR, Lincoln Navigator, several BMW models, and the Nissan Titan.

Recycling PET Gets More Efficient with introduction of the first commercially available dry cleaning unit by B+B.

To Meet Emerging Needs of Electronics Component Manufacturers DuPont is introducing an improved grade of its Thermx PCT thermoplastic polyester.

Low-Emmissions Acetals are introduced by DuPont