Wiley Encyclopedia of Packing Technology - Hardcover

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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.

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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