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News Release from: Omnexus
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2002
Commerce centre extends plastic resource
Omnexus has launched its new commerce centre, an online presentation of industry products and services within the global plastics e-marketplace.
Omnexus has launched its new commerce centre, an online presentation of industry products and services within the global plastics e-marketplace that extends the benefits of the industry's most comprehensive online plastics resource to a growing audience of buyers and sellers The commerce centre opens a new marketing channel for companies to take advantage of growing e-business opportunities within a global plastics industry that is rapidly moving its business processes online
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The commerce centre allows companies targeting the plastics industry to draw from the traffic created by the e-marketplace's 'anchor' suppliers, including founders BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Ticona.
"The Omnexus commerce centre offers an effective way for manufacturers such as NOVA Chemicals, to reach the growing number of designers and moulders who are coming to the Internet, and specifically to Omnexus, to exchange their ideas and conduct their business", said Greg Wilkinson, Business Director, NAS and Zylar for Nova Chemicals.
"Omnexus provides many different e-tools to help us build awareness of our high-performance styrenics products.
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Our presence in the commerce centre is providing real leads and valuable contacts".
The commerce centre offers participating companies several key benefits through its prime location in the Omnexus e-marketplace: access to Omnexus members, a large, qualified audience of plastics industry buyers and decision-makers; the most affordable way to effectively open new markets in North America, Europe, or specific geographical locations within either, to extend products and services to a growing audience; links to a wide variety of services, news and technical information created for the plastics industry, available in one place; and the security and stability of the Omnexus online system, powered by the industry's most advanced technology.
The Omnexus commerce centre increases the number of products and services available to the e-marketplace's members by offering them direct, centralised access to an unlimited variety of plastics-related companies.
Omnexus currently counts more than 17,000 members in its growing community base, who use the site to order resins, source plastics products including equipment, conduct technical research and stay abreast of the latest industry news.
"The new commerce centre is another example of how Omnexus is expanding its e-marketing services to bring value to its members", said Michael J Walsh, interim CEO of Omnexus.
"The commerce centre also provides benefits to a variety of suppliers, by letting them tap into a large, and continually growing, audience of global plastics professionals".
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