Plastics manufacturing is a highly interdisciplinary endeavor requiring knowledge related to materials science, physics, engineering and management. Because of this diversity, the plastics process engineer interacts with many stakeholders, including customers, designers, material suppliers, machine builders, mold/die suppliers, system integrators, operators, quality engineers, and managers. With so many stakeholders involved, it isn't surprising that many plastics manufacturing processes are not precisely engineered systems. The resulting processes can be poorly designed, requiring too much investment to achieve too little productivity. This book was written for plastics processing engineers, but it is also highly useful to others involved with plastics manufacturing who are performing process development, research, and even machinery design.

This book shows the relationship between processing parameters and product performance by examining morphology in terms of texture and orientation. by Arthur W. Birley, B. Haworth and Jim Batchelor

Trying to serve plastics engineers speaking different languages and to breach the language barriers within the international plastics community, the idea was born to compile a glossary of plastics terminology in several languages. The glossary is now also available in electronic format (companion CD). For the first time it covers Chinese and Russian as well as English, French, Spanish, Italian and German translations of approximately 2,200 terms related to chemistry, properties, testing and technology of plastics. In general, the user will find only one translation for any technical term in each language, used most often in the daily work of peolpe involved in plastics.

This book describes the three main disciplines that make up adhesion technology: mechanics of the adhesive bond, chemistry of adhesives, and surface science.

This book describes the three main disciplines that make up adhesion technology: mechanics of the adhesive bond, chemistry of adhesives, and surface science.