What Will
You Learn?

• Plastics industry is growing very rapidly and personnel from different disciplines such as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering/Technology, Mechanical Engineering & Commerce & Management Studies. These may not have formal education in plastics technology.
• Basic knowledge of plastics and processing will help them to understand many aspects of this industry.
• This course covers basic properties of polymers such as glass transition temperature, thermoplastic and thermoset, solubility etc.
• It also discusses the briefly properties of commonly used plastics. The plastic products are made by different processing techniques such as extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, 3-D printing etc. The basic operational features of these discussed have been discussed.
• While making products many additives are used. Hence commonly used additives and compounding have been discussed.