State-of-the-art guide to plastic product design, manufacture and application. Edited by Charles A. Harper and sponsored by Modern Plastics, the industry's most prestigious trade magazine, Modern Plastics Handbook packs a wealth of up-to-date knowledge about plastics processes, forms and formulations, design, equipment, testing and recycling. This A-to-Z guide keeps you on top of: *Properties and performance of thermoplastics, polymer blends...thermosets, reinforced plastics and composites...natural and synthetic elastomers *Processes from extrusion, injection and blow molding to thermoforming, foam processing, hand lay-up and filament winding, and many, many more *Fabricating...post-production finishing and bonding...coatings and finishes, subjects difficult to find treated elsewhere in print *More!
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If you need hands-on information about plastics, you've come to the right source. Teaming up with the highly respected Modern Plastics magazine, expert Charles A. Harper delivers the most comprehensive single-source reference on plastics technology ever published.
Practical and highly insightful, the Modern Plastics Handbook gives you coverage of materials, product design, and manufacturing processes that you'll find nowhere else. An incisive examination of every aspect of plastics technology, this sourcebook can help you:
1) Compare and select types, processes, and uses. 2) Master chemistry and manufacturing techniques used in all segments of the industry. 3) Discover new design methods and details. 4) Find new testing and quality control guidance. 5) Cut cost with the latest recycling technology. 6) Apply new coating and finishing techniques. 7) Take plastics technology one step beyond.
Packed with essential information for those in -or interested in-the industry, the Modern Plastics Handbook is vital to anyone who makes decisions about plastics.
About the Author
Charles A. Harper (Lutherville, MD) is an industrial consultant and resident of Technology Seminars, Inc. Previously, he was Manager of Materials Engineering for Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, MD. He is the author and editor for numerous McGraw-Hill books dealing with materials and plastics, including the Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers and Composites.
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