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Penton's Design Engineering Group to Partner With PARTsolutions on Digital Catalog Marketing

Posted on: Monday, 1 October 2007, 12:00 CDT

Penton Media's Design Engineering Group, anchored by Machine Design® magazine, today announced a strategic marketing and sales partnership with PARTsolutions LLC, a leading provider of publishing solutions for 3D digital parts catalogs. Under the agreement, the Group will market PARTsolutions' eCATALOGsolutions technologies and services to component manufacturers. eCATALOGsolutions products and services allow component manufacturers to create 3D-enabled catalogs that support Web and print distribution to customers worldwide. For more information, visit http://machinedesign.partcommunity.com.

"PARTsolutions technologies and services provide strategic, world class solutions for our advertisers and we're pleased to make eCATALOGsolutions available to our customers," said John Petersen, publishing director of Machine Design. "Sales leads produced by PARTsolutions digital catalogs offer customers conversion rates that are among the highest in the industry."

"Our longstanding relationship has reached a new level with this agreement to have Penton Media's Design Engineering Group market PARTsolutions products & services to its customers. Component manufacturers and their customers will benefit from this new relationship," added Tim Thomas, PARTsolutions CEO.

The Machine Design CAD Library (http://machinedesign.partcommunity.com), powered by PARTsolutions technology, is an engineering resource where designers can configure and download millions of supplier components and assemblies in the native CAD format of their choice.

PARTsolutions CAD portals are expected to surpass 20 million downloads and 110 million page impressions in 2007. PARTsolutions' relationships with the major CAD companies enable it to serve the entire market, independent of the technology choices of component manufacturers, OEMs, and their customers.

For more information, please contact Rick Seibt, director of eMedia for Machine Design at 1-(216) 931-9652 or rseibt@penton.com or Doug Korneffel, director of marketing for PARTsolutions at 1-(513) 453-0453 or doug.korneffel@part-solutions.com.

PARTsolutions LLC is a leading provider of enterprise, digital parts management technology and services, delivering solutions since 1992. PARTsolutions products provide cross-media, catalog publishing solutions, with offerings for Internet, CD-ROM and print catalogs. Manufacturers increase sales by enabling engineers to specify components early in the design process. Engineers reduce design time with access to components and assemblies in over 85 CAD & graphic formats, addressing nearly 100% of all global CAD seats. Information about PARTsolutions can be found at http://www.partsolutions.com.

Machine Design, serving OEM design engineers, has been providing engineers with the most up-to-date technical information since 1929. It is published 24 times annually and circulated to 180,000 qualified design engineers. For additional information, visit www.machinedesign.com.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

Source: Business Wire

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