The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology - Hardcover

Bakker, Marilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471809403 ISBN 13: 9780471809401

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1986

Synopsis

The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology Packaging technology is of vital importance in all manufacturing industries. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology is designed to provide a comprehensive reference incorporating 188 topics from "Acrylics" to "Zero–Crush Concept" for a wide audience of engineers, technologists, and scientists who seek an introduction to unfamiliar aspects of the packaging process. In addition to providing an exhaustive reference for packaging engineers, the book is also designed to serve, for example, polymer chemists developing new products. It will also meet a need in all technical libraries for an authoritative basic reference on packaging. The 188 entries have been written by 225 acknowledged experts in academia and industry, and each has been reviewed by other experts in the field for completeness and objectivity. This encyclopedia provides coverage of all stages of the packaging process from raw materials through distribution. Multiple articles are included on all major topics, such as bags, boxes, cans, cartons, coextrusion machinery, decorating, filling machinery, films, plastics, steel, and testing. A significant contribution to packaging literature, this encyclopedia brings together in a single volume expertise from many disciplines. It contains many landmark articles, such as blow molding, corrugated boxes, fabricated cans, steel cans, economics of packaging, glass container design, glass container manufacturing, indicating devices, multilayer flexible packaging, paper, specifications and quality assurance, and international standards and practices. Numerous bibliographies accompany the articles. In addition, the encyclopedia includes over 200 tables and nearly 600 figures—all prepared with the cooperation of a distinguished Advisory Board. The result is a unique, informative work that will serve the diverse interests and concerns of those in the field of packaging with authoritative, reliable, state–of–the–art information of the subject.

About this title

About the Author

About the editor Marilyn Bakker has been monitoring plastics and packaging developments for ten years. As president of Technology Forecast since 1983, she has been deeply involved in packaging markets and technologies, with special emphasis on intermaterials competition among plastics, metal, and glass. Two major multiclient studies have been completed as part of the Current Issues in Packaging series. Earlier, she was director of Plastics Research at BCC, Inc., Stamford, CT, and affiliated with Sabre Associates, Inc., Norwalk, CT Author of "Engineering Plastics," Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 3rd Edition. Editor of "Netherlands–American Trade," based in the United States and Holland. Education: BA, Bacteriology Indiana University, MS, Western Connecticut State College. Memberships: American Chemical Society. Society of Plastics Engineers. Society of the Plastics Industry. Chemical Marketing Research Association. Tappi. R&D Associates. Packaging Institute. Food Institute.

From the Inside Flap

Editorial Board Members of the Advisory Board Mr. Bernard P. Braun, Package Works, Inc., Wilton, CT Dr. Aaron L. Brody Vice President, Strategic Services, Schotland Business Research, Princeton, NJ Mr. Edmund A. Leonard, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Mr. Alfred H. McKinlay, Consultant in Packaging and Handling, Pattersonville, NY Dr. Chester J. Mackson, Director Emeritus, School of Packaging, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Mr. Frank A. Paine, Consultant in Packaging Technology and Management, Surrey, UK Mr. Stanley Sacharow, Executive Director, The Packaging Group Inc., Milltown, NJ Managing Editor Dr David Eckroth, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology contains important information about every aspect of the packaging industry covering:

• Materials: polymers and films, papers, and foils
• Conversion Processes and Products: glass manufacture, plastics and processing methods, tin–mill products, heat sealing, laminating, multilayer flexible packaging, can fabrication
• Packages and Supplies: corrugated boxes, sealing tapes
• Packaging Machinery and Equipment: fillers, cappers, conveyors
• Design: cushion systems, bottles

Plus articles on regulations, standards, environmental concerns, recycling, economics, education, trademarks, patents, and much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0471809403
• ISBN 13: 9780471809401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 768