| IDES Plastics Database Grows to 57,548 Globally
Available Resin Data Sheets
LARAMIE, Wyo. – April 26, 2005 – IDES, the market leader
in plastics data display and search engine technologies,
today posted a report that included 6,106 new materials
available in their database. IDES customers and visitors
now can access 57,548 plastic material data sheets from
488 global resin manufacturers from one convenient location.
Two products that access resin information hosted by
IDES called Prospector Pro and Prospector X5 also include
Supplier Listings that link to additional resin information
including; MSDS, UL Yellow Cards, Processing Charts
and Documents, Chemical Resistance Charts, Cost Estimators,
Snap Fit Design Calculators, Flow Length Calculators,
a People Finder and Product Photo Galleries. Prospector
Pro incorporates advanced search features beneficial
to design engineers including; Property Search, Automotive
Specifications Search, Multi-Point Search, and an Alternative
Resin Finder to help plastics buyers find lower-cost
offsets. Prospector X5 is a complimentary service for
buyers and specifiers of resin to quickly reference
comprehensive data sheets that include extensive processing
information. Both tools include an integrated Sourcing
system to help resin buyers efficiently obtain material
pricing and availability from plastics distributors.
All resin content and data is supplied to IDES directly
from resin manufactures and IDES employs a team of engineering
curators that update the database every two weeks. Comprehensive
updates to entire manufacturer product lines during
the first quarter of 2005 included; AES Santoprene (Advanced
Elastomer Systems), Eastman Chemical Company, GE Advanced
Materials, GE Advanced Materials Asia Pacific, GE Advanced
Materials Europe, RTP Company and Voridian, a division
of the Eastman Chemical Company.
The report is available online at: www.ides.com/datareports
More information about IDES can be found at: www.ides.com
About IDES Inc.
IDES is the world’s leading plastic materials information
management company. IDES’ innovative search technologies
connect 10,735 plastics industry companies around the
world with information every day. Founded in 1986 by
Michael Kmetz Ph.D., IDES is headquartered in Laramie,
Wyoming with offices in France. For more information,
visit www.ides.com. |
