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A single volume reference guide on the fundamentals of packaging technology including its application to food and drink.
Nowadays, packaging is not so much a handy container as an integral part of the product it contains. It is also an area under pressure - through legislation, social and environmental issues, and basic business efficiency. It many cases it is also the primary point of contact between the manufacturer and consumer, in providing information about the product and promoting brand image. In short, the package is more important than it has ever been - both to the product and those involved in making and developing the product.
This A-Z guide covers the technologies used to package consumer and industrial products across all sectors - including food and drink. It addresses many of the principles of packaging and illustrates these with industrially relevant examples, presenting a wealth of information on packaging materials and technologies. As a detailed, comprehensive single-volume reference guide, this encyclopedia will prove invaluable to food science and technology professionals in industry, research and enforcement.
Features include:
- International panel of 250 contributors
- 1023 pages in an easy-to-use single hardcover volume
- Simple A-Z structure of over 200 in-depth items
- Over 3,300 indexed terms
- Over 2,000 references cited
- List of conversion factors, abbreviations and unit symbols
- Separate glossary of key packaging terms
Examples of entries
- Acrylic plastics
- Active packaging
- Additives - plastics
- Adhesive applicators
- Adhesives
- Aerosol containers
- Air conveying
- Ampuls and vials - glass
- Aroma barrier testing
- Aseptic packaging
- Bag-in-Box
- Bulk containers
- Bagmaking machinery
- Bags
- Bar codes
- Barrels
- Biodegradable materials
- Blow moulding
- Bottle design
- Boxes
- Bulk packaging
- Canning food
- Cans
- Can seamers
- Capping machinery
- Cartons
- Cellophane
- Checkweighers
- Child resistant packaging
- Closures
- Colorants
- Conveying
- Decorating / printing
- Distribution packaging
- Drums
- Economics of packaging
- Edible films
- Environment
- Extrusion
- Films
- Foam
- Foil
- Glass
- Holographics
- Hotfill
- Indicating devices
- Injection moulding
- Inks
- Labels and labelling
- Leak testing
- Life cycle assessment
- Machinery
- Materials handling
- Medical packaging
- Metal packaging
- Metrication
- Microwaveable packaging
- Modified atmosphere packaging
- Multilayer flexible packaging
- Nylon
- Oxygen scavengers
- Package integrity
- Packaging of food
- Pallets / Palletizing
- Paper / paperboard
- Permeability
- Pharmaceutical packaging
- Polymers (various)
- Propellants
- Recycling
- Retortable packages
- Robots
- Sealing
- Shelf-life
- Strapping
- Surface treatment
- Tags
- Tamper evident packaging
- Tape
- Testing packaging
- Time temperature indicators
- Transportation codes
- Trays
- Tubes
- Vacuum packaging
- Waxes
- Welding
- Wrapping machinery
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