Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Expanded Plastics

  • Chapter
Plastics Forming

Part of the book series: Production Engineering Series ((MECS))

  • 72 Accesses

Abstract

Expanded (or cellular) plastics are continually finding new uses in a wide variety of industries. Furniture and bedding, domestic appliances, automotive and building industries, for example, are all using large quantities of cellular plastics and as the various technologies advance, further applications will be found for these plastics, both in new outlets and as replacements for existing materials which for technical or economic reasons will be superseded. Polyurethane and polystyrene foams are currently the most widely used, but phenolic, urea-formaldehyde, silicone, etc, foams all have a place in plastics foam technology.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. J H Saunders and K C Frisch, Polyurethanes, Pt 1; Interscience Div., Wiley & Sons.

    Google Scholar 

  2. J M Buist and H Gudgeon (Ed), Advances in Polyurethane Technology, Maclaren & Sons.

    Google Scholar 

  3. I Musgrave, J Cellular Plastics (1969) 5, 4.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. J M Buist, Rubber Journal (1966) 148, 3.

    Google Scholar 

  5. W J Lanigan, British Plastics (1963).

    Google Scholar 

  6. H L Ward, J Cellular Plastics (1970) 6, 5.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. B Ryall and P G Griffiths, J Cellular Plastics (1970) 6,5.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. H. Wirtz, Kunstoffe (1970) 60, 1.

    Google Scholar 

  9. T H Ferrigno, Rigid Plastic Foams, Reinhold.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Kühlmöbeltagung ’68, Farben Fabriken Bayer A.G.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Shell Chemicals Technical Information. 1CS(X)/68/15.

    Google Scholar 

  12. K D Roome and J W Waters, Cabinet Maker and Retail Furniture (1968 January).

    Google Scholar 

  13. Shell Patented Automatic Tank Spraying Equipment (PATSE).

    Google Scholar 

  14. H. Piechota, Kunstoffe (1970) 60, 1.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Shell International Chemical Co Ltd, UK

    H. Gibson ARIC

Authors
  1. H. Gibson ARIC
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

John D. Beadle

Copyright information

© 1971 Macmillan Publishers Limited

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Gibson, H. (1971). Expanded Plastics. In: Beadle, J.D. (eds) Plastics Forming. Production Engineering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01194-0_19

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01194-0_19

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave, London

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-349-01196-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-349-01194-0

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation