IDES Prospector Nears 70,000 Plastic Material Data Sheets

LARAMIE, Wyo. – July 24, 2007 – IDES Inc. (www.ides.com), home of The Plastics Web® and the fastest growing search destination for the plastics industry, now has processing and property information for over 68,000 plastic materials from 600 global manufacturers. More than 120,000 plastics professionals find the information they need using Prospector, a search engine for plastic material data sheets developed by IDES.

"By giving our users immediate access to the most comprehensive source for plastic materials, Prospector reduces the amount of time it takes to select polymers and reference processing information," said Mike Kmetz, President and Founder of IDES. "The expansion of our content offering to include more global materials addresses a shared need among our customers for a source they can trust for all of their plastics data."

• New materials in Prospector: 514
• Number of updates to existing materials: 6,550
• Current total plastics in Prospector: 68,203

Most updates to Prospector during this time came from these manufacturers:

1. PolyOne Corporation
2. DSM Engineering Plastics
3. Polyram Ram-On Industries
4. Rhodia Engineering Plastics SA
5. BASF Corporation
6. Basell Polyolefins
7. Polimeri Europa
8. Degussa AG
9. INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA
10. Bayer MaterialScience AG

For more information, visit www.ides.com/data.

More news: Related links:

2009  |  2008  |  2007  |  2006  |  2005  |  2004  |  2003 Testimony  |  Customers  |  Bios  |  Products  |  Images

Join the IDES Network:   Email Alerts  •  Blog  •  Twitter  •  LinkedIn