Packaging: Specifications, Purchasing, and Quality Control - Hardcover

Edmund A. Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824777298 ISBN 13: 9780824777296

Publisher: Marcel Dekker Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Enabling engineers to link development, purchasing, quality control, and distribution, this important new edition shows how packaging specifications perform a vital communications role. It focuses on post-development use of these specifications and highlights their principal user functions. Completely updated, the Third Edition now includes coextrusion coverage within appropriate chapters; new material on such constructions as metallized films, paper, and boards; and an entirely new chapter on computerized specifications. Packaging serves both as a practical reference and a useful textbook...cites examples of specifications in all major packaging forms and materials...presents packaging specifications in both computerized and hard-copy formats...emphasizes practical application of statistics in quality assurance...and covers specifications of primary packages, shipping containers, and unitized modules. This volume is mandatory reading for packaging, design, handling, and quality control engineers; executives, managers, and purchasing managers in the packaging industry; food scientists and technologists; packaging materials manufacturers; packaging machinery designers; industrial technologists and designers; material handling consultants; packaging technicians in the food, pharmaceutical, consumer product, and chemical industries; undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in packaging engineering; and professional seminars on packaging.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824777298
• ISBN 13: 9780824777296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 240