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Portals, directories, search engines
SpecialChem.com
SpecialChem.com offers services related to Polymer Additives and Colors: industry knowledge, technical information, technical assistance, articles from experts and interactive guides.
http://www.specialchem.com
Polymer-Search.com
Industry specific search engine for the plastics and rubber industries, provided by RAPRA Technology.
http://www.polymer-search.com/
Polysort.com
A plastics and rubber industry portal. Services and sections provided: news, web directory, classifieds, forums etc.
http://www.polysort.com
Plastics.com
A plastics industry community site. Aims to develop a plastics industry marketplace.
http://www.plastics.com/
For more polymers, additives and plastics industry portals please visit:
http://www.chemindustry.com/db/category/cat1.asp
Links to industry overviews and reports can be found in ChemIndustry.com's Newsletter No. 22:
http://www.chemindustry.com/info/newsletter22.asp
Online marketplaces
ChemConnect.com
The Internet's largest global chemical and plastics exchange, providing an open neutral market for chemical and plastic manufacturers, buyers, and intermediaries.
http://www.chemconnect.com/
Omnexus.com
Founded in 2000 by BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Ticona, Omnexus currently offers plastics products and related services from more than 20 global suppliers. Omnexus is designed and built by the global plastics industry to be the single source for everything a plastics professional needs to succeed in daily business.
http://www.omnexus.com
ChemCross.com
ChemCross is a neutral chemical online exchange established by the participation of more than 60 major chemical companies in Asia as shareholders. The major products traded on ChemCross are mostly commodity petrochemical products such as benzene, toluene, xylenes; polymer materials like PVC, PP, PE, and ABS; and organic and specialty chemicals.
http://www.chemcross.com/Index.jsp
Elemica.com
Elemica is a leading network for the global chemical industry, developed by 22 of the leading chemical companies in the world for the benefit of the entire industry.
http://www.elemica.com
PolymerAdditives.com
A one-stop shop for a wide selection of products from the world's leading polymer additive manufacturers. By offering online ordering, product and application information, order tracking and technical support, PolymerAdditives.com is providing the additives industry a comprehensive source.
http://www.polymeradditives.com
The Plastic Exchange
The Plastics Exchange is a real-time spot marketplace for anonymously buying and selling prime commodity grade plastic resins in truckloads and railcars.
http://www.theplasticsexchange.com
For more chemical and plastics marketplaces please visit:
http://www.chemindustry.com/db/category/cat5.asp
Major manufacturers' e-businesses
E-epoxy.com by Dow Chemical
e-commerce service, dedicated to epoxy resins.
http://www.e-epoxy.com
PolymerLand by GE Plastics
A leading global distributor of plastic resins from GE Plastics and other manufacturers.
http://www.gepolymerland.com
GE Silicones
GE Silicones, GE Bayer Silicones and GE Toshiba Silicones bring this comprehensive e-commerce site.
http://www.gesilicones.com
PolyOne
PolyOne's transactional web storefront, currently available for registered North American Engineered Films, Plastic Compounds and Colors, and Specialty Vinyl Dispersion Resins customers.
http://www.getpolyone.com/
For suppliers of polymers, additives, and plastics related products please visit the following categories of our directory:
Plastic & rubber additives
Polymers & compounds
Plastic & rubber end products
Rubbers & elastomers
Plastics industry equipment
Magazines and news
Plastics Additives & Compounding
Provides news, business and technical insight into the polymer additives industry. Plastics Additives & Compounding is published 11 times a year by Elsevier Science.
http://www.addcomp.com/
Modern Plastics
Modern Plastics provides In-depth and timely reporting on all aspects of the plastics industry from processing to resins to equipment to services, e-business, and applications. Published once a month by Chemical Week Associates.
http://www.modplas.com/
Plastics News
PlasticsNews.com is the online complement to Plastics News, a Crain Communications publication. The magazine is published once a month.
http://www.plasticsnews.com
Organizations
American Plastics Council - http://www.americanplasticscouncil.org/
Association of Plastics Manufacturers Europe (APME) - http://www.apme.org/
The British Plastics Federation - http://www.bpf.co.uk/
Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) - http://www.cpia.ca
Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) - http://www.plasticsindustry.org/
Vinyl Institute - http://www.vinylinfo.org/index.html
For more plastics industry organizations please visit our categories:
http://www.chemindustry.com/db/category/cat135.asp
http://www.chemindustry.com/db/category/cat411.asp
Correction to Newsletter No. 27 - "Research and laboratory chemicals"
The description of VWR was not accurate. Here is the correct description:
VWR services the industrial, government, life science, education, electronics
and pharmaceutical markets as a leading worldwide distributor of scientific
equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture. They supply over 400,000 products to the scientific community. VWR International is a Company of the Merck Group.
http://www.vwr.com --
Thank you Gordon F.
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