5 Red Stars Introduction to Plastics. 1/2/04
Detail information from the British Plastics Federation.
5 Red Stars History of Plastics. 1/2/04
Detail information from the British Plastics Federation.
5 Red Stars Plastics Historical Society. 1/1/05
What are Plastics. People & Polymers. Caring for Plastics. Design & manufacturer. Acronyms for plastics. Manufacturing processes. Virtual museum (Viscose Rayon)
5 Red Stars Plastic Materials. 1/2/04
31 plastics listed with basic properties and applications.
5 Red Stars Typical Abbreviations. 1/2/04
Extensive list of abbreviations for plastic materials. From the British Plastics Federation.
5 Red Stars Vacuum Forming Animation. 1/2/04
Animation showing the Vacuum Forming Process. From the British Plastics Federation web site. Check out Plastics for more information.
5 Red Stars Vacuum Forming. 1/2/04
Very detailed educational site from "formech", a manufacturer of vacuum forming machines. Sequence of photos showing a machine being used.
5 Red Stars HIPS (High impact polystyrene). 1/2/04
Detailed information on HIPS.
5 Red Stars Injection Moulding Animation. 1/2/04
Animation showing the Injection Moulding Process. From the British Plastics Federation web site. Check out Plastics for more information.
4 Red Stars Challange of Materials 1/2/05
What are materials. Selecting and making materials,
4 Red Stars Videos from C.R.Clarke 1/2/04
28 videos of their machines showing how they are used. (page down)
4 Red Stars How to process Plastics. 1/2/04
14 different processes listed from injection moulding, blow moulding, rotational moulding etc. Some with animations. Detail information from the British Plastics Federation.
3 Red Stars American Plastics Council 5/9/07
Wide range of topics on Plastics, its History and Uses. Packaging codes, Inovations, Safety.
3 Red Stars Hands on Plastics 1/2/05
Links to other relavent sites.
3 Red Stars Fun with Polymers 1/2/05
Properties of Polymers, Coatings, Fibre optics, Polymers from the sea. Polymers in film production.
3 Red Stars Process Costing Guide. 1/2/04
Graphs showing unit cost for different processes. From the British Plastics Federation.
2 Red Stars Plastics Properties and Uses. 1/2/04
Basic information on 10 plastics. From Design and Tech.com.
2 Red Stars History of Plastics and Polymers. 1/2/04
Advanced information on Plastics, molecular structure, testing, etc. From American Plastics Council.
Issue 53 - 19/8/06