Food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, home-care materials, and many more essential products for modern life: all require appropriate packaging, and polymers very often provide the optimal solution. Based on the author's popular course on polymer packaging at the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Technology of Polymer Packaging provides an essential, user-friendly introduction to the field of polymer packaging suitable for students, people in industry, and particularly all those who deal with packaging but have a background other than that of a polymer technologist or packaging specialist.

Dr.-Ing. Arabinda Ghosh has been Professor of Polymer Packaging at the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, since 1991. He previously undertook research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Food- and Packaging Technology, Munich, and was Manager for Packaging System Development, Dixie Union, Kempten.

1 Definition of Polymers
2 Manufacturing of Polymer Resins
3 Classification of Polymers (Plastics)
4 Plastics Additives
5 Required Performances of a Plastic Packaging
6 Polymers for Packaging
7 Legislative aspects for Polymers
8 Extruder Polymer melting machine
8.1 Technology of Extrusion and Co-extrusion
8.2 Conti-Process
8.2.1 Manufacturing of blown film (flexible films)
8.2.2 Manufacturing of cast films
8.2.2.1 Chillroll-films (flexible films)
8.2.2.2 Calendering of sheets (rigid sheets)
8.2.2.3 Water bath Sheets
8.2.2.4 PVC-Sheets
8.2.3 Tubes as Packaging material
8.2.4 Special films
8.2.4.1 Monolayer Films
8.2.4.2 Multilayer films
8.2.4.3 Oriented films
8.2.4.4 Biaxial oriented films (sequentially and simultaneously)
8.2.4.5 Double-Bubble Process
8.2.4.6 Tripple-Bubble Process
8.2.4.7 Shrink films
8.2.4.8 Stretch films
8.2.4.9 Extended films
8.3 Disconti-Process
8.3.1 Injection-Moulding
8.3.2 Injection-Blow-Moulding
8.3.3 Extrusion- and Coextrusion-Blow-Moulding
8.3.4 Stretch Blow-Moulding
8.3.5 Thermoforming
8.3.5.1 Processing of Polymer Sheets
8.3.5.2 Thermoforming Machines
9 Technology of Sealing
9.1 Direct Heating
9.1.1 Heated Jaw Sealing
9.1.2 Electrical Impuls Sealing
9.1.3 Hot Air Sealing
9.2 Indirect Heating
9.2.1 Highfrequency-Sealing
9.2.2 Ultrasonic Sealing
9.2.3 Induction-Sealing
Part 3: Converting of Polymer Packaging (Composite Packaging)
10 Technology of coating
10.1 Extrusion Coating
10.2 Coextrusion Coating
10.3 Lacquering
11 Laminating
11.1 Extrusion Laminating
11.2 Coextrusion Laminating
11.3 Adhesive Laminating
11.3.1 Solvent based Laminating
11.3.2 Solventless Laminating
12. Vacuum Deposition of Packaging Material
12.1 Material and Substrates
12.2 PVD-(Physical Vapour Deposition)
12.2.1 El. Resistance Heating
12.2.2 Electron Beam Gun
12.2.3 Plasma Deposition
12.3 CVD (Chemical Vapour Deposition)
12.3.1 Al- and Si-Oxides
12.3.2 Organic Siloxanes
Part 4: Special Topics
13 Collapsible tubes
14 Sealing problems in different Packages
15 Composite bonding
16 Migration and Permeation
17 High Barrier Solutions