Manufacture of Plastic

Components
Prepared by

Devara Venkata Krishna
Asst. Professor
Dept., of Mechanical Engineering

Introduction
The Word plastic is from the Greek word plastilzos, meaning
capable of being molded and shaped. Plastics can be formed,
machined, cast, and joined into various shapes With relative ease.
Minimal additional surface-finishing operations, if any at all, are
required; this characteristic provides an important advantage over
metals.
Consumer and industrial products made of plastics include food and
beverage containers, packaging, housewares, housings for
computers and monitor, medical devices, foams, paints, safety
shields, toys, appliances, lenses, gears, electronic and electrical
products, and automobile bodies and components.
The term polymer means many mers (or units), repeated
hundreds or thousands of times in a chain like structure.