The Packaging User’s Handbook

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-22

3. Packaging Materials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Wood and wood-based materials

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      Pages 25-35

   3. Pulps and papers

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      Pages 36-63

   4. Paperboard

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      Pages 64-80

   5. Metal packaging

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      Pages 81-93

   6. Glass

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      Pages 94-101

   7. Plastics

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      Pages 102-120

   8. Adhesives

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      Pages 121-137

4. Retail Packaging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Packaging with flexible barriers

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      Pages 141-161

   3. Folding boxboard cartons

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      Pages 162-194

   4. Rigid and cylindrical boxes and composite containers

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      Pages 195-226

   5. Metal cans

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      Pages 227-266

   6. Aerosols (pressurized containers)

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      Pages 267-279

   7. Metal and plastic collapsible tubes and aluminium foil containers

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      Pages 280-288

   8. Glass containers

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      Pages 289-312

   9. Moulded pulp, expanded polystyrene, moulded and thermoformed plastic containers

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      Pages 313-347

The first version of this book, Packaging Materials and Containers was published in 1967 and was revised extensively ten years later under the title The Packaging Media. Some thirty or so authors were involved in producing the initial texts for these books, and I must acknowledge their material, much of which is still valid. It is now thirteen years since The Packaging Media-high time to take stock and incorporate the considerable advances in materials, forms, techniques and machinery that have taken place. In 1977, wherever possible, we asked the original authors to carry out the revisions, but retirements and job changes have now eliminated over twenty of the original authors. We have therefore appointed an Editorial Board to advise on this more extensive revision, and I wish to thank them for their detailed and helpful assistance: Dr C. J. Mackson and Professor Y. Dagel for general comments and guidance on the overall plan and, in particular, the Introduction (chapter 1); Graham Gordon and Harri Mostyn for assistance with much of Part D on Distribution Packages, and Dennis Hine and Susan Selke for their work in respect of paperboard and plastics retail packaging, respectively. A major contribution was made by the seventh member of the Editorial Board, David Osborne, who advised in the area of glass.

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• International Association of Packaging Research Institutes, USA

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• School of Packaging, Michigan State University, USA

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