PET is a polymer which is enjoying substantial growth as a packaging material across global markets and for diverse applications, competing directly with polyethylene, polypropylene, and styrenics. PET Packaging Technology provides a complete source of reference for all aspects of this sector of the packaging industry.

PET Packaging Technology is directed at packaging technologists, those involved in the design and development of packaging, and those responsible for specifying or purchasing packaging.

Contents

1. Introduction
   • Introduction
   • Market growth and the development of materials
   • Technology
   • Packaging

2. Commercial Considerations
   • Introduction
   • Container technologies
   • product processing and filling requirements
   • Cost and performance considerations
   • Recycling issues
   • End-use market penetration

3. PET Materials and Applications
   • Introduction
   • Polymerisation and manufacturing processes
   • Structures, morphology and orientation
   • Properties
   • Rheology and melt viscocity
   • Moisture uptake and polymer drying
   • Degradation reactions
   • Reheat characteristics
   • Gas barrier properties
   • Amorphous polyesters
   • Crystalline polymers
   • Polymer blends
   • Applications
   • Trends
   • Global

4. Barrier Materials and Technology
   • Introduction
   • Polyesters
   • Barrier materials
   • Barrier technology
   • Oxygen barrier
   • Carbon dioxide barrier
   • Future trends

5. PET Film and Sheet
   • Introduction
   • The film process
   • Polymer process and properties
   • Surface and bulk properties
   • PET sheet
   • Conclusions-film

6. Injection and Co-injection Preform Technologies
   • Multilayer characteristics
   • Applications
   • Closure vs. bottle permeation
   • Container performance
   • Wall structure
   • Preform and bottle design
   • Headspace oxygen absorption
   • Oxygen desorption from PET
   • Beer containers
   • Small juice containers
   • Small CSD containers
   • Core layer volumes
   • Recycling
   • Comparison of co-injection technologies
   • Co-injection molding equipment
   • The future

7. One-stage Injection Stretch Blow Moulding
   • Introduction
   • One-stage machines
   • Process stations on a one-stage machine
   • "Integrated two-stage" machines
   • Drying system
   • Preform design
   • Container design
   • Hot-fill PET bottles
   • Quality control procedures
   • Preform examination
   • Container examination
   • Bottles for carbonated beverages
   • Additional tests for hot-fill containers
   • Additional tests for returnable/refillable PET bottles

8. Two-stage Injection Stretch Blow Moulding
   • Introduction
   • Preform injection moulding
   • Stretch blow moulding
   • Preform and container design

9. Injection Blow Moulding
   • Basic principles
   • History
   • Process identification
   • Commercial processes
   • Tooling
   • Procrea
   • Materials
   • Applications
   • Machine and process capabilities

10. Hot-fill, Heat-set, Pasteurization, and Retort Technologies
    • The hot-fill process
    • The heat-set process
    • The pasteurization process
    • The retort process
    • Concluding remarks

11. Environmental and Recycling Considerations
    • Introduction
    • European environmental policy
    • EU packaging and packaging waste directive
    • Collection and recovery procedures
    • Plastics packaging waste
    • Recycling of PET
    • Environmental benefits of recycling
    • Economic factors affecting PET bottle recycling
    • Markets for recovered PET
    • PET recycling-the future

    Index

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