Technology of Plastics Packaging for the Consumer Market

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, 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.