Industrial Plastics: Theory and Applications

by Terry Richardson and Erik Lokensgard

This text offers broad coverage of the many facets of industrial plastics, including the latest environmental issues in plastics recycling. Included are well-illustrated laboratory activities related... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827365586
• ISBN13: 9780827365582
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 529 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.0"

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Few inventors can develop, manufacture and market their product without any use of plastics. Even if your product does not contain plastics, the packaging often does. This book is essentially an encylopedia of plastics and provides a comprehensive overview of plastics history, theory, characteristics and selection, forming, fabricating, and decorating. It has 135 pages of appendices including a glossary and detailed descriptions of plastics families and characteristics. If you need plastics in your venture, you need this book.

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A good overview of plastic materials and the industry.

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