Plastic product material and process selection handbook Plastic property Fabricating product Injection molding Extrusion Blow molding Thermoforming Foaming Calendering Coating Casting Reaction injection molding Rotational molding Compression molding Reinforced plastics Other process Mold and die tooling Auxiliary equipment This book is for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes. The information and data in this book are provided as a comparative guide to help in understanding the performance of plastics and in making the decisions that must be made when developing a logical approach to fabricating plastic products to meet performance requirements at the lowest costs. It is formatted to allow for easy reader access and this care has been translated into the individual chapter constructions and index. This book makes very clear the behaviour of the 35 000 different plastics with the different behaviours of the hundreds of processes. Products reviewed range from toys to medical devices to cars to boats to underwater devices containers springs pipes aircraft and spacecraft. The readers product to be designed and or fabricated can be directly or indirectly related to plastic materials fabricating processes and or product design reviews in this book. *Essential for people involved in working with plastic material and plastic fabricating processes *Will help readers understand the performance of plastics *Helps readers to make decisions which meet performance requirements and to keep costs low