Plastics End Use Applications
Plastics End Use Applications is a SpringerBrief designed to keep professionals in the plastics industry abreast of key technical developments, business strategies and marketing initiatives in plastics and competitive materials that impact sales and usage
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Donald V. Rosato
Plastics End Use Applications
Donald V. Rosato PlastiSource, Inc. Concord, MA 01742, USA [email protected]
ISSN 2192-1091 eISSN 2192-1105 ISBN 978-1-4614-0244-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0245-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0245-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931281 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This SpringerBrief Plastics End Use Applications covers approximately 120+ plastics applications and trends in the major end use areas of electrical and electronic, industrial, transportation, consumer products, medical, emerging, and related subsectors. Plastics play an indispensable role in a wide variety of markets, ranging from packaging and building & construction to transportation, consumer and institutional products, furniture and furnishings, electrical & electronic components, medical and others. This enormous variety of end uses for plastics materials is what gives the industry its remarkably dynamic character. This also offers an exciting and significant challenge to companies, to find the optimum mix of markets and customers to pursue that which fits with the products it makes, the services it offers, and its financial goals. Plastics End Use Applications provides a simplified, practical, and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. This unique review will expand the reader’s understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on current and future technical trends. Plastics behavior is presented to enhance the capability of fabricating products that meet performance standards, low cost requirements, and profitability targets. Application examples include toys, medical devices, cars, boats, underwater devices, containers, springs, pipes, buildings, and aircraft. Also covered are behaviors associated with different plastic materials (thermoplastics, elastomers, reinforced plastics) and the many fabricating processes (extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, forming, foaming, reaction injection molding, rotational molding). This material is presented so that both technical and non-technical read
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