PACKAGING: Specifications, Purchasing, and Quality Control
Fourth Edition by Edmund A. Leonard

This thoroughly rewritten and enlarged edition describes, from a technological basis, the post development activities required to bring packaging specifications into production successfully.

This edition addresses each area concerned with packaging, from purchasing, manufacturing, and quality control to distribution, retailers and consumers.

New features of this edition include:

• Four case histories of production and marketing problems caused by quality and communications gaps
• An entirely new perspective on the importance of bar codes
• An updated and enlarged chapter on performance testing of unit loads and shipping regulations
• New information on advanced flexible packaging
• A glossary of abbreviations for the identification of plastic materials and process forms

Contents:
Functional and Marketing Criteria in Specifications.
Manufacturing and Cost Criteria in Specifications.
The Buyer-Supplier Relationship.
Quality-Control Principles.
Glass Container Specifications and Quality Control.
Metal Container Specifications and Quality Control.
Plastic Package Specifications and Quality Control.
Paperboard-Based Packaging.
Flexible Packaging.
Unitized Distribution Packaging.
Computerized Specifications.
Specifications and Quality Control of Bar Codes.
Appendix: Technical and Trade Associations.
Bibliography.

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