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Product category: Materials and components
News Release from: Netshape | Subject: Plasticsrendezvous.com
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 05 October 2001

New site for plastic components
machining sector

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The new website plasticsrendezvous.com has extensive technical information and ordering on line of standard and cut to size stock shapes (rod, plate and tube)

NetShape SAS announces the launch of its website www.plasticsrendezvous.com This site is dedicated to the needs of the plastic components machining sector with extensive technical information and ordering on line of standard and cut to size stock shapes (rod, plate and tube)

Plasticsrendezvous.com intends to become a place of encounter between designers, buyers, and plant-and maintenance engineers.

Plastic stock shapes - rod, plate and tube - are used for producing components such as rollers, gears, bearings, guides, sprockets...

for virtually any kind of machinery and equipment.

5% of the users represent 50% of the volume used and entertain strategic relationships with different specialized manufacturers.

The other 95% encounter numerous difficulties to obtain technical information as well as procurement problems.

The objective of plasticsrendezvous.com is to rationalize and optimize the process of selection, procurement, transformation and application for the hundreds of thousands of European companies involved in the very fragmented industry of machine-and equipment construction and maintenance.

Created by Lieven A Vercaemst, previously senior executive and marketing director at DSM Engineering Plastic Products (today Quandrant AG), world-wide market leader in its field and Bernd Henderkott, President of the Henderkott Group, one of the largest distributors of plastic shapes for machining, the site allows to fill the information and procurement needs of a very large number and a great diversity of customers.

On plasticsrendezvous.com, visitors will find : - the physical, mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of over 70 different engineering plastics with a property comparison function.

- detailed machining recommendations - a chemical resistance data base covering over 1000 chemicals to check chemical resistance at different temperatures and concentrations.

- information on food compatibility and fire resistance.

- Material Safety Data Sheets for all products for printing or storing in a personalized MSDS folder.

- detailed availability information.

- a personalized product catalog allowing easy access to product information and availability details of an own selection of products.

Visitors who open an account will be able to have access to immediate online pricing and ordering of standard and cut-to-size lengths and widths of a very complete range of NetShape engineering plastics covering :: PA (nylon) - POM (acetal) - PETP - PE HD- PP - PTFE - PVDF - PEEK - PAI (Torlon) - PI (Vespel) - PEI - PSU - PPSU - PVC - PC - PMMA - PUR - - ) The site is available in three languages : English, French and German and has been produced in cooperation with the CAE web agency of Info-Next.

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