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CES Polymer Selector

The most powerful plastics selection tool ever built

What you do you get when you combine data from CAMPUS, IDES, RAPRA, Moldflow and Granta with Ashby’s materials selection methods?

Answer: The CES Polymer Selector, the most powerful design tool for plastics material selection ever realized.

CES Polymer Selector is a specialist edition of Granta's CES Selector, combining everything that the plastics user or manufacturer will need in a single package.

Product designers increasingly need to prove they have followed a rational path in materials selection with respect to performance, cost, processability and eco-impact. CES Polymer Selector is the tool that lets you do this.

CES Polymer Selector Components

CES Selector software

Browse, search, and interact with materials data and apply powerful materials selection capabilities that implement the Ashby selection methodology.

Plastics data series

A comprehensive set of plastics property and processing data. Coupled with the CES Selector selection capabilities, this creates an outstanding specialist plastics selection tool. Key information resources include:

PolymerUniverse - over 550 complete generic datasheets containing 50 properties and covering thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers and composites. (More on thermoplastic elastomer data...)
ChemRes - ranks the PolymerUniverse polymers based on their resistance to over 190 different chemicals and solvent environments
CAMPUS - datasheets on over 4,600 commercially available grades from 27 producers including Bayer, BASF, Dow, DuPont, and Ticona
IDES - 50,000 plastic resins datasheets from 400 vendors, offering a large number of ASTM and ISO standard properties

More information

For the latest developments see the summary of CES Selector 2007.

Find out how and why CES Polymer Selector enables a unique approach to polymer selection.

For larger scale web deployment of Granta's selection technology and plastics data modules, consider GRANTA MI with the Enterprise Materials Optimizer and Plastics data series.

CES Polymer Selector in the press

"The rational method offers a means to both complement and go beyond experience in the selection of materials. It offers the prospect of discovering better, cheaper, faster ways of working."
Materials World [Full article]

"Granta Design is hailing the new release of its CES Polymer Selector as the most powerful selection tool ever built. It's a bold claim; can it be true?... So Granta's CES Polymer Selector has complete generics, the widest available range of grade-specifics, extensive facilities for sorting, comparing and selecting and Ashby bubble charts. Claim upheld? The answer must be yes."
British Plastics and Rubber [Full article] (PDF 300KB)

"The CES POLYMER SELECTOR is a systematic, design-led and science-based software tool for selecting the best plastics material for a given application. It combines generic and grade-specific information with powerful graphical selection methods that work on combinations of properties."
British Plastics and Rubber [Full article]