Materials and Development of Plastics Packaging for the Consumer Market (Sheffield Packaging Technology) -- Hardback

Materials and Development of Plastics Packaging for the Consumer Market (Sheffield Packaging Technology) -- Hardback

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Full Description


Plastics are enjoying substantial growth as a packaging medium, at the expense of materials such as glass, metals and paper, and in spite of environmental pressures on plastics materials in general. The growth of plastics packaging is due in no small part to the technologies available to convert available materials into packs of different forms -- flexible, semi--flexible and rigid -- at high speed. This has had a crucial role in minimising the cost of plastics packaging. High quality packs can be produced, with the option of including decoration as part of the moulding process. This volume acquaints the reader with the technologies that can be used to convert a limited number of polymers into a myriad of packaging formats. Designed as a companion volume to Materials and Development of Plastics Packaging for the Consumer Market (eds G A Giles and D R Bain), it covers the manufacture of plastics packaging for the food, beverage, household and personal care products markets worldwide. Chapter authors have been drawn from industry or from sources close to industry. The volume is directed at packaging technologists and those involved in the design and development of packaging.It will also be of interest to those involved in specifying or purchasing packaging.

Contents

Technical and commercial considerations; Types of plastics materials, barrier properties and applications; Structural design, CAD / CAM, performance, finite element analysis; Rapid prototyping and tooling; Design and decoration formats; Development of flexible plastics packaging; Plastics in active packaging; The changing image of plastics packaging in the marketplace; Plastics packaging and the environment; Recycling and reuse of plastics packaging for the consumer market; Appendix: Analysis of polymer usage for plastics packaging in Western Europe; List of Polymers; Index.