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Finding Key People:  Linked-In is THE professional networking tool for the business and marketing community.  Especially efficient way to locate and contact people within specific companies.

http://www.linkedin.com/

Industry Newsletters – These two cover the chemicals and plastics industries, largely from a US point of view.  Many others are available … these are free and convenient.

http://www.topix.com/business/chemicals

http://www.polysort.com/news/plasticsnews.aspx

Industry Blogs are everywhere.  Here are a couple of fairly recent ones that seems to cover a great number of industry, market, and business topics.

http://market-intel.com/blog/

http://www.marketresearchbulletin.com/

Stay on the cutting edge of scientific discovery with a daily dose of short, readable synopses touching the breadth of science and technology.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

US Federal government resources – Say what you will about “government work”, the US Departments of Commerce, Labor and State provide great sources of high quality information about the US and global economy, businesses and industries.  Here are some of the most comprehensive sites.  Experts within these bureaucracies are extremely accessible, extremely knowledgeable, and eager to help.  

http://www.commerce.gov/

http://www.nist.gov/index.html   National Institute of Science & Technology

http://www.bea.gov/  Bureau of Economic Analysis US - Economy by state, industry, metro area, etc

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/index.html  Census Bureau economic programs by NAICS

http://www.export.gov  Information about foreign markets, written for US exporters

http://www.bls.gov/  Dept Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics – Wealth of data about employment by industry, state, etc

http://www.state.gov/business/  State Department country and regional profiles.

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