“Our storefront on Knowde is an important element of our strategy to provide our customers with a better, online buying experience. With its upgraded search functionality, customers will be able to find the products that best match their application needs faster than ever.”

Darrell Williams, Senior Vice President, Commercial, Advanced Composites

“As Knowde continues to build the largest business-to-business marketplace on the planet, we are providing R&D and procurement professionals in key industrial markets with ‘one-stop shopping’ capabilities. Advanced Composites is well-known for materials that help customers improve the quality of their products.”

Dan Haas, Chief Commercial Officer of Knowde

Advanced Composites opens a storefront on Knowde

SAN JOSE, CA, and SIDNEY, OH – JULY 21, 2022 – Advanced Composites, a leading supplier of thermoplastic olefins (TPO) and polypropylene compounds, has opened a storefront on Knowde, the marketplace for ingredients, polymers and chemistry.

“Our storefront on Knowde is an important element of our strategy to provide our customers with a better, online buying experience,” said Darrell Williams, Senior Vice President, Commercial, for Advanced Composites. “With its upgraded search functionality, customers will be able to find the products that best match their application needs faster than ever.”

Advanced Composites serves companies in the automotive, building and construction, consumer products, appliance, recreational vehicle and electronics markets. These customers choose Advanced Composites’ TPO for its wide range of material benefits: high strength, impact and scratch resistance, mechanical flexibility and easy processability. TPO is also used to replace metals and engineered thermoplastics (ETPs) to make finished products lighter.

Advanced Composites also offers post-consumer recycled grades that help customers meet their sustainability goals.

“As Knowde continues to build the largest business-to-business marketplace on the planet, we are providing research and development (R&D) and procurement professionals in key industrial markets with ‘one-stop shopping’ capabilities” said Dan Haas, Chief Commercial Officer for Knowde. “Advanced Composites is well-known for materials that help customers improve the quality of their products.”

Advanced Composites’ customers can use Knowde’s powerful search capabilities to explore materials by chemistry, application, function, technical properties and more, including a focus on sustainable ingredients.

Design engineers can also utilize Knowde to collaborate in real time with online experts who can offer expertise on product design and development, manufacturing, and more. For technical professionals, this will help shorten development time and enable companies to get products to market faster. For buyers, it simplifies the process of sourcing materials.

Customers can sign up for free, 24/7 access to Advanced Composites materials at Knowde.com.

For companies like Advanced Composites, a Knowde storefront helps to differentiate their brand and promote their value proposition. Knowde also provides targeted digital marketing tools to build storefront traffic, and robust analytics to support data-driven decision making.

Manufacturers interested in having their own storefront on Knowde can contact Haas at dan@knowde.com.

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About Advanced Composites

Advanced Composites, Inc. (ACP); ACP is the Mitsui Chemicals Group Company, and is producing mainly TPO Compounds for Auto motives. ACP and its affiliate companies are one of the world’s largest Polypropylene Compounding companies, located in Japan, USA, Mexico, Brazil, China, Thailand, India and Europe. More information on the company can be found at http://www.advcmp.com.

About Knowde

Knowde is the leading online marketplace for producers and buyers of ingredients, polymers and chemistry. The Knowde.com marketplace allows buyers to search, compare, sample, quote and purchase products from every producer on earth, all in one place. With more than 100,000 products and thousands of producer storefronts — more than any distributor, marketplace or middleman organization in the history of the industry — Knowde is the largest marketplace of its kind. Knowde is backed by top tier investors including Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Refactor Capital, Bee Partners, Cantos Ventures, Sound Ventures, TQ Ventures, K5 Global, Mantis VC, Knollwood, 8VC, and FJ Labs. For more information, visit www.knowde.com.

Media contacts:

Denny Ferrell, General Manager – Business Development, Advanced Composites, 330-352-1040 or denny.ferrell@advcmp.com

John Schmidt, Media Relations, Knowde,  john.schmidt@knowde.com  or 973-632-8214