Some aspects of thermal effects and application properties of engineering plastics and rubber

The investigations presented here were made over the last few years at the department of Plastics and Rubber Engineering at the Polytechnic of Wuerzburg/Germany, exclusively in cooperation with German plastic and rubber processing or industrial applications companies. Practical aspects rather than basic research were stressed, e.g. faster characterization of material, characteristics of the final product, optimization of processing processes, Aspects of recycling, of growing importance today, were also considered.