Back in 1992, Suzie Witzler of Injection Molding Magazine and Mike Kmetz of IDES had an idea to publish plastics processing and performance information in hand-sized reference books that could be conveniently referred to on shop floors to help process and select plastic materials.
Over the years, data grew so extensively that the books are now much thicker and more difficult to place in your back pocket. IDES now provides a service throughout the plastics industry known as Prospector that provides many powerful search methods to access data sheets and information on 45,000 materials. Unique characteristics include methods for searching on over 300 material properties (for example; tensile strength, notched Izod impact, flexural modulus, etc…), comparing materials side-by-side, and displaying multi-point design data.
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