Plastics Extrusion Technology Handbook Second Edition

This is an excellent book describing the fundamentals of plastics extrusion. Its only shortcoming--if you care to call it that--is its reliance on the most common thermoplastics to describe all plastics extrusion. In defense of the authors, they did state that caveat. I have given it 5 stars but I only studied about half of the material in the book, and do not feel qualified to rate the other half, specifically the chapters around heat transfer, downstream equipment, design and integration, computer control, and plant design. Someone with more experience around that might give the prospective buyer a better picture.

I am a Process Technician at a plastics compounding company. I ordered this book when I first was hired because I came from a molding company and needed to quickly grasp extrusion principles. This book was one of the few that I could find that was affordable. It provided me with a good understanding of extrusion.