IDES Announces Strategic Partnership with Machine Design

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LARAMIE, Wyo. – February 1, 2006 – IDES Inc. (www.ides.com), the fastest growing search destination and informational resource for the plastics industry, has announced a strategic partnership with Machine Design magazine, a leading publication serving OEM design engineers with the most up-to-date technical information since 1929.

The partnership with Machine Design offers the design engineering community direct access to search IDES’s vertical search engine for plastics-related content that includes more than 60,000 plastic material data sheets from 500 global resin manufacturers. The search box now available at www.machinedesign.com also connects visitors to articles, tools and resources related to designing applications with plastics.

“Our partnership with Machine Design is a great fit – they have a large audience of design engineers that work with plastics, and through MachineDesign.com we’re able to provide them with the technical materials information needed to make application design decisions,” said Mike Kmetz, IDES President and CEO.

“The IDES philosophy of providing relevant engineering information to help engineers in the design process fits perfectly with Machine Design’s aim to provide the most complete package of useful technical information,” says Machine Design Group Publisher Rob Dorfmeyer. “We are pleased to partner with this top-notch information provider.”

About Machine Design
Machine Design, the leading publication serving design engineers in the OEM, has been providing engineers with the most up-to-date technical information since 1929. It is published 24 times annually and circulated to 180,000 qualified design engineers. Its popular website, www.machinedesign.com, celebrating 10 years of online information sourcing, continues to set the industry standard with superior content and high traffic. The Machine Design brand is rated "most useful" among design engineers and has twice been named to BtoB magazine's Top 50 of the best places to advertise.

About IDES Inc.
IDES is a global information management company focused on improving the ways people connect with technical information about plastic materials. Since 1986, their online Prospector Plastics Database has grown to include 84726 datasheets from 866 global resin suppliers. The company also provides resin data management services and custom resin selectors for nearly all resin distributors and several polymer manufacturers. IDES is headquarted in Laramie, Wyoming with an office in Europe. For more information, visit www.ides.com/about.

Contacts:
Nathan Potter
IDES
+1-307-742-9227 ext. 246
pottern@ides.com

Jane Cooper
Machine Design
+1-216-696-7000
jcooper@penton.com