Net gains, March - April 2005
A service for Members, designed to direct you towards major web sites that will be of value to your company. Only a small proportion of useful links can be listed in the Bulletin. For more links, select Information & know-how from the top of the screen then Links to other sites.
Plastics and composites
Plastics.Com offers industry news, forum area, databases of products and companies and links to trade journals. Access to some areas requires registration (free at present).
www.plastics.com/
RAPRA Technology Ltd offers information on services, publications and activities. Polymers Directory of companies, products and services can be searched by subscribers. The RAPRA abstracts database is available through the Polymer Library; subscribers can search online.
www.rapra.net/
Plastics News offers market and commercial information to subscribers plus a selection of this information for guest visitors.
www.plasticsnews.com/
The Society of the Plastics Industry describes the society and its activities, events and publications. US industry statistics are presented.
www.plasticsindustry.org/
Society of Plastics Engineers describes member services, industry information, publications, training, employment information and events.
www.4spe.org/
Multimaterials offers information developed through the European project Design Optimisation and Guidelines for Multimaterial Applications (DOGMA). This covers joining techniques, environmental issues, materials development, process technology, modelling techniques, and design criteria.
www.dogma.org.uk/
Composites Alliance links NetComposites, a site covering all kinds of composites information including events, industry news, applications and properties of polymers and composites based on them, and Composites News SuperSite, which presents news of the industry, taking stories from Advanced Materials and Composites News and Composites eNews.
www.compositesalliance.com/
www.netcomposites.com/default.asp
www.compositesnews.com/
World Wide Composites Search Engine helps you to find information on companies, products and people in the industry. It offers relevant mailing lists.
www.wwcomposites.com/