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Description Author: V. Goodship and J.C. Love, The University of Warwick ISBN 978-1-85957-327-3 pages: 116, figures: 23, tables: 6 Summary Injection moulding is the most important of all the commercial methods of plastics processing. Many variations have been developed and one of the rapidly expanding fields is multi-material injection moulding. This is particularly important where processors...
Description Author: David Eaves ISBN 978-1-85957-388-6 pages 274 Summary The use of polymer foams is extremely widespread. Indeed, it is hard to think of any industries where polymer foams do not have a part to play. They can be found for example in sports and leisure products, in military applications, in vehicles, in aircraft, and in...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1-927885-41-3 Publication date: March 2019Number of pages: 930+xiiFigures: 240Tables: 260 Summary The volume begins with a discussion of solvent used in over 30 industries, which are the main consumers of solvents. The analysis is conducted based on available data and contains information on the types (and frequently amounts) of solvents...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1-927885-38-3 Published: March 2019Pages 900+xFigures: 315Tables: 130 Summary The third edition contains the most recent findings and trends in the solvent application. This volume together with Vol. 2 Use, Health & Environment, Databook of Green Solvents, and Databook of Solvents contains the most comprehensive, and up to date information ever...
Description Author: K. Pielichowski and J. Njuguna ISBN 978-1-85957-498-0 Published: 2005 306 pages Summary Thermal degradation of polymeric materials is an important issue from both the academic and the industrial viewpoints. Understanding the thermal degradation of polymers is of paramount importance for developing a rational technology of polymer processing and higher-temperature applications. Controlling degradation requires an understanding...
Description Author: Roger P Brown ISBN 978-1-85957-460-7 Published: 200494 pages Summary Polymers have been used in agriculture and horticulture since the middleof the last century. There is a tremendous potential for using polymersin agriculture and our fields and garden would look very different if wedid not use polymers in them.This review traces the history of polymer...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1-895198-65-2 Published: 2014Number of pages: 978 Summary The volume begins with a discussion of solvent used in over 30 industries, which are the main consumers of solvents. The analysis is conducted based on available data and contains information on the types (and frequently amounts) of solvents used and potential problems...
Description Author: George WypychISBN 978-1-927885-37-6 Published: 2018Pages 226 + viFigures 135Tables 34 Summary Fillers do not fill but modify the next generation materials, control their properties, open new applications. This opening sentence underlines the aims of this book which shows applications of fillers resulting from their chemical composition (or modification) and/or special morphological features. This...
Description Author: George Wypych, Editor ISBN 978-1895198-64-5 Published: 2014Pages 900 Summary Each chapter in this volume is focused on a specific set of solvent properties which determine its choice, effect on properties of solutes and solutions, properties of different groups of solvents and the summary of their applications' effect on health and environment (given in tabulated...
Description Author: Worrell and Reuter ISBN 9780123964595 State-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and scientists Summary Key Features- Portrays recent and emerging technologies in metal recycling, by-product utilization, and management of post-consumer waste- Uses life cycle analysis to show how to reclaim valuable resources from mineral and metallurgical wastes- Uses examples from current professional and industrial practice, with...
Description Author: Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-85957-317-4 Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium, 24th- 25th June 2002pages 160 Summary This international two-day conference is now firmly established as Europe's premier meeting place for the thermoplastics elastomers sector. The last three events which were held in London, Amsterdam and Brussels each brought together more than 200 key players involved...
Description Author: S Ashter ISBN 9781455731725 Plastic Films Technologies, Testing, and ApplicationsPublished: 2013 Pages: 352 Summary Key Features• First comprehensive source of information and hands-on guide for the thermoforming of multilayered laminates• Covers applications across such sectors as automotive, packaging, home goods, and construction• Introduces new testing methods leveraging protocols used for metalsDescriptionThermoforming of Single...
Description Author: Derek J Knight and Lesley A Creighton ISBN 978-1-85957-471-3 SafePharm Laboratories Ltd.Published: 2004Rapra Review Reports, Vol. 15, No. 5, Report 173pages 120 Summary A wide variety of plastics is used in food-contact applications and it is important that such plastics do not affect the food with which they come into contact. Given the obvious importance...
Description Author: Prof. F. P. La Mantia 10-ISBN 1-895198-03-8 13-ISBN 978-1-895198-03-4Published: 1993 Summary Recycling of materials is rapidly developing discipline because of environmental awareness, need to conserve materials and energy, and growing demand to increase production economy. This book combines topics discussing the state of art, analysis of processes successfully implemented in industrial practice, ideas concerning production...
Description Author: Johannes Karl Fink ISBN 978-1-4557-3149-7 Published: 2013A Concise Guide to Industrial Polymers Hardbound, 576 Pages Summary The use of reactive polymers enables manufacturers to make chemical changes at a late stage in the production process - these in turn cause changes in performance and properties. In order to achieve optimal performance, material selection and...
Description Author: Rapra Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-84735-009-1 Munich, Germany, 30-31 January 2007 Summary This conference saw presentations from all parts of the electronics industry’s materials supply chain, from raw materials to finished products and offered an opportunity to learn more about both traditional and new polymer materials, their markets, manufacturing processes, and applications. It also covered the...
Description Author: K. Cousins ISBN 978-1-85957-190-3 Published: 2000110 pages, softbound Summary This report concentrates on the developments in polymeric materials and processes for cable specification and design. The main sections provide an overview of polymer used by a material with the main end-use markets examined: automotive, rail transport, aerospace, building and construction, business machines and computer networks,...
Description Author: Eyerer, Peter (Ed.) ISBN 978-3-540-88416-3 432 p., Hardcover Summary Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks...
Description Author: Arnold Tukker, TNO ISBN 978-1-85957-331-0 pages: 110, figures: 3, tables: 5 Summary Protection of our environment is now a global priority and legislation is being introduced in regions such as the European Union to ensure that material usage is maximised. Much of the development work has been pioneered in Germany which introduced very strict...
Description Author: Eleanor Garmson and Frances Gardiner ISBN 978-1-84735-491-4 Pages: 142, Hard cover Summary This multi-authored book - from some of the leading researchers and practitioners on this topic - is a distinctive look at how to maximize profitability through environmental compliance in the plastics supply chain, a topic of great and ever-growing interest in the...