Plastics Technology Handbook - Volume 2

This comprehensive handbook provides a simplified, practical and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. It will expand the reader's understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on past, current, and future technical trends. The content is presented so that both technical and nontechnical readers can understand the interrelationships of materials to processes. Different plastic products are examined and their related critical factors are shown, from meeting performance requirements in different environments, to reducing costs and targeting for zero defects. Examples used include small to large, and simple to complex shapes. Information is included on static properties (tensile, flexural), dynamic properties (creep, fatigue, impact,) and physical and chemical properties. Extensive reference sources and useful data and physical and chemical constants are also provided. The volume 2 offers detailed coverage of most major plastics processing techniques, including injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, thermoforming and xxx.

Donald V. Rosato has extensive technical marketing plastic industry business experience from R&D product development, through manufacturing, to marketing and sales, having worked for Northrop Grumman, Owens-Illinois/Graham, DuPont/Conoco, Celanese/Ticona, and Borg Warner/G.E. Plastics/Polysar. He has written extensively, developed numerous patents within the polymer related industries, is a participating member of many trade and industry groups, such as SPE, SPI, PIA, CPPIA and SAMPE and currently is involved in these areas with PlastiSource, Inc. (technical development; prototype manufacturing). He received BS in Chemistry from Boston College, MBA at Northeastern University, M.S. Plastics Engineering/M.S. Polymer Chemistry/M.S. Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Ph.D. Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley.