About Polysort

Polysort was founded in 1995 as the first industry portal of any kind. Today we remain the most popular Industry mega-site serving the plastics and rubber industries.

The web site, ranked as the most popular plastics site by YAHOO!, features a wide array of information and services, most of which had never been available to the industry prior to Polysort's launch.

These content areas include:

• Industry news compiled from more than 8,000 global news sources. Polysort segments its news based on user interest - members may select to read either plastics news or rubber news on our site.
• Links to plastics and rubber companies - More than 5,000 links to companies from every sector of the industry, from materials suppliers to processors, primary and secondary machinery manufacturers, mold makers, and service companies.
• Member Forums - The Polysort site is viewed by participants as an "industry community," one that fosters networking and peer-to-peer technical discussion. Our member forums are quite popular. Among them are forums for specific processes, like injection molding, and for other hot topics like mold making, recycling, and compounding.
• Plastics & Rubber Tradeshow & Conferences Calendar - Polysort's calendar of plastics and rubber tradeshows and conferences has been rated as one of the most comprehensive and useful in the industry.
• Job Postings - Are we turning an economic corner or is Polysort just the place to post? The site currently has more than 80 industry-specific job openings.
• Plastics & Rubber Industry Classifieds - This popular section enables users to post used machinery, machine time, raw materials and other products and services. Site visitors can locate ads by category type or keyword.

Polysort and Plastics, Rubber
Since the launch of Polysort, plastics and rubber content and outreach to industry companies has been the hallmark of our business. As a result, Polysort is known industry-wide as the go-to site for plastics and rubber industry information.

Polysort does not track the site usage of individual visitors to our site. However, we do know that our content is widely used - our site generates more than 150,000 page views each month. Here's some additional info about our site:

• Plastics and Rubber news - This is consistently one of the top 10 visited pages on our site each month. More than 2,500 site users each month come to Polysort to read plastics industry news.
• Links Directory - Our directory of plastics and rubber company links is the most visited section of our site. Companies seeking specific products and services can easily find what they're looking for through our keyword, business category and geographic search functions. This is the section in which most of our clients advertise because it gives them the best type of visibility - they're being found by people specifically looking for their type of company!
• Industry Relevance - Internet users seeking plastics- and rubber-related sites regularly come to Polysort via the major search engines.
• The term "plastics" is the most popular term by which users of YAHOO! find Polysort online.
• The term "rubber" is the 2nd most popular term by which users of YAHOO! find Polysort online.

• Association of Rotational Molders
• American Fiber Manufacturers Association
• Society of Plastics Engineers
• Hong Kong Plastics Technology Centre
• University of Cincinnati Engineering Library
• Duke University Library
• California Film Extruders & Converters Association
• Society of the Plastics Industry
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Polystyrene Packaging Council
• American Mold Builders Association
• Rubber Division
• Akron Rubber Group
• Rubber TradeWorlds
• British Plastics & Rubber Monthly
• Rubber.net
• ChemIndustry.com
• Vulcan Rubber