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'''[[IDES Inc.]]''' is a [[plastics|plastics]] information managment company. 

IDES's innovative plastics search engine technology connects 10,000 companies around the world with plastic materials data. Founded in 1986, IDES is the industry standard for finding plastics and data sheets. IDES’s flagship search engine, Prospector, contains 57,000 materials from 488 global resin suppliers. IDES also develops custom data management solutions for resin suppliers, distributors and OEMs. IDES is headquartered in Laramie, Wyoming and has a sales office in Oyonnax, France. 

== Products & Services ==

'''Plastics Data Search Engines'''
* [http://www.ides.com/demos/ Prospector Pro]: a powerful search tool for design engineers to search on 300 plastic material properties and compare resins.

* [http://www.ides.com/x5/register/default.aspx?cmp=745 Prospector X5] :  a free plastics data sheet service for buyers & specifiers of resin

'''Published Books'''
* [http://www.ides.com/books/ Pocket Specs for Injection Molding - 6th Edition]
* [http://www.ides.com/books/ Pocket Performance Specs for Thermoplastics - 3rd Edition]

'''Custom Web Sites for Resin Suppliers, Distributors & OEMs'''
* [http://www.ides.com/dataservices/ Plastics Data Services | iCatalog]

== Plastics ==
Some of the plastic material data sheets available in the IDES database include the following (categorized by generic family):
* [[Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene]]
* [[Acrylic]]
* [[Phenolic]]
* [[Polyamide]]
* [[Polycarbonate]]
* [[Polyethylene]]
* [[Polyolefin]]
* [[Polypropylene]]
* [[Polystyrene]]
* [[Polysulfone]]
* [[Thermoplastic Elastomer]]
...and hundreds more.

== IDES history ==
IDES is an acronym for Integrated Design Engineering Systems.  Founded in 1986 by Michael L. Kmetz, IDES started as an Engineering PHD project for IBM.  IBM needed a way to catalog the plastics materials used in manufacturing of their computer components like keyboards, computer cases and monitors.

Quickly, the need for this information from one source grew and IDES transitioned its method for storing and presenting data from old floppy discs, to cd-rom and in 1996, to the Internet.

==External links==
* [http://www.ides.com www.ides.com]

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