Description: This book includes within its authorship, representatives of both the manufacturing industry sector and the academic world, thus providing a range of views on controversial issues.
The growth in the worldwide plastics industry in recent years owes at least as much to developments in additive technology as it does to improvements in polymer science. Probably the improvements in polymer science have been more widely disseminated and better explained. There are now far more categories of additives than there were 25 years ago. Changes in technology are driven partly by the desire to produce plastics which are ever more closely specified for particular purposes, and partly by environmental pressures and legislative changes. This book does not deal specifically with environmental issues as a subject (nor with health and safety topics) but it includes within its authorship, representatives of both the manufacturing industry sector and the academic world, thus providing a range of views on controversial issues.
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