"Prospector:Composites is really a product driven by customer demand," saidJerad Stack, CEO of Firehole Technologies Inc. "Everyone we talk to in thecomposites community tells us that finding reliable material data for theirdesigns is a significant issue. This is especially true in industrieswhere the use of composites is just emerging, like the automotive sector."

Prospector:Composites delivers to the engineering design community a singlelocation to quickly locate, compare and evaluate candidate composites. Akey feature of the tool is that, in addition to manufacturers' supplieddata, Prospector:Composites is populated with quality data from some of theworld's foremost testing labs and research institutions, giving usersaccess to data they can trust. Once Firehole Technologies Inc. gatherscomposite materials data from these various sources, they provide it toIDES who manages the information with their industry-leading materialsmanagement system and publishes the data to Prospector:Composites, apublicly available web-based search interface.

"Our Prospector plastics search engine is trusted by more than 230,000thousand users worldwide as their source for property and processing datafor 77,000 plastic materials," said Mike Kmetz, President of IDES. "Withthe launch of Prospector:Composites, we are excited to deliver the samequality and functionality to the composites community."

More information about Prospector:Composites is available atwww.ides.com/composites

About IDES Inc.

IDES is a plastic materials information management company. The PlasticsWeb® from IDES is a website with a vertical search engine connecting tensof thousands of companies around the globe with plastics content andtechnical data sheets from 670 global resin manufacturers. The companyprovides custom resin selectors for nearly all resin distributors and anumber of resin manufacturers. IDES is headquartered in Laramie, Wyoming,with offices in Europe. For more information, visit www.ides.com.

About Firehole Technologies Inc.

Firehole Technologies supplies innovative computer-aided simulationsoftware and services for composite materials to the aerospace, defense,automotive and energy industries. Firehole's Helius:MCT(TM) softwareenables the design of composite structures without the numerous expensivetesting cycles traditionally deployed, allowing for a faster time-to-marketand more reliable designs. The company's mission is to enable wide-spreaduse of composite materials leading to lighter, stronger and more fuelefficient applications. For more information, visit www.fireholetech.com.

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Contacts:Nathan PotterIDES | The Plastics Web®+1-307-742-9227 ext. 246Email ContactJason GiesFirehole Technologies Inc.+1-307-460-4763Email Contact