01.14.2010 – LARAMIE, WY- IDES Inc., the leading search engine and informational resource for plastic materials, has published a report of the most popular plastic materials of 2009. The report provides a list of plastic material products from more than 700 global resin manufacturers including the number of datasheets that were accessed for each product line. Data was collected by IDES from analytical traffic statistics of their Prospector search engine for plastic materials datasheets. Since 1986, the IDES Prospector search engine has given design and process engineers access to plastic material information from resin manufacturers through one convenient and standardized source of data.

As the industry's preferred resource for material datasheets, last year more than 300,000 plastics professionals downloaded 3.2 million datasheets using Prospector, a 33% increase over 2008. To view the full report, visit www.ides.com/reports/2009

About IDES Inc.
IDES is a plastic materials information management company. The Plastics Web® from IDES is a website with a vertical search engine connecting tens of thousands of companies around the globe with plastics content and technical datasheets from 700 global resin manufacturers. The company provides custom information management services for nearly all resin distributors and a number of resin manufacturers. IDES is headquartered in Laramie, Wyoming, with offices in Europe.

For more information, visit www.ides.com.