IDES Announces Strategic Partnership with Machine Design
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 plastic materials information management company. The Plastics Web™ from IDES is a vertical search engine connecting tens of thousands of companies around the globe with plastics content and technical data sheets from 500 global resin manufacturers. The company provides custom resin selectors for nearly all resin distributors and a number of resin manufacturers. IDES is headquartered in Laramie, Wyoming with offices in Europe and Mexico. For more information, visit www.ides.com.
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Contacts:
Nathan Potter
IDES
+1-307-742-9227 ext. 246
pottern@ides.com
Jane Cooper
Machine Design
+1-216-696-7000
jcooper@penton.com |
