Polymers as Materials for Packaging - Ellis Horwood Series in Applied Science & Industrial Technology.

This volume deals with the scope of polymer utilization in packaging, comprehensively reviewing the origin, structure, properties and processing of polymers, and the converting operations relevant to packaging. The book is unique in setting the main topic of polymers against a background of alternative or conventional materials, whether the relationship is complementary or competitive. Thus the special advantages, or disadvantages, of polymers are brought into perspective.;The text covers natural polymers as well as synthetic ones, whether used as major components or as auxiliaries in packaging materials, and deals with packaging in far more detail than most treatments. As a packaging handbook it covers the science and technology of polymeric materials more fully than general treatises on packaging. The emphasis is more technical than commercial, the latter being subject to the vagaries of supply and demand, of local and world economics.