BPF launches Plastipedia and plastics ‘Facebook’
The British Plastics Federation has launched its new website this week featuring an industry ‘facebook’ plus an exciting new tool called Plastipedia – an on-line plastics encyclopedia.
The website takes the industry into the plastics equivalent of social networking. Plastbook will facilitate exchange of experience between personnel in the industry.
It will also provide a facility to ask and provide answers to particular questions which could lead to business development opportunities for the respondents, said the BPF.
Public and industrial affairs director Philip Law described Plastipedia as “the world’s largest on-line plastics encyclopedia”. The tool covers polymers, additives, processing technologies and products and will feature animations of processes.
Other features include an Exporters’ Toolbox, with plastics market data for 80 countries, and an Industry Directory, containing profiles on some 2,000 UK plastics companies.
“The site has been entirely re-styled,” Law added. “Major new additions include downloadable buyers’ guides to the major players in the industry. Featuring BPF members they represent a tangible, new, membership benefit.”
The BPF's earlier website was already very popular with 1.5 million unique visitors per annum. The BPF website is at www.bpf.co.uk