For many years, I had the idea of writing a book about injection molding, as I have spent over 45 years of my working life on this subject.
When I retired in 2009 I was given great support by my friends Katarina Elner-Haglund and Peter Schulz of the Swedish plastics magazine Plastforum, who asked me to write a series of articles about thermoplastics and their processing for the magazine.
I was also hired at this time to work with educational programs at the Lund University of Technology, the Royal University of Technology in Stockholm, and a number of industrial companies in Sweden, as a result of which this book was developed.
My aim has been to write in such a way that this book can be understood by everyone' regardless of prior knowledge about plastics. The book has a practical approach with lots of pictures and is intended to be used in secondary schools, universities, industrial training, and self-study. In some of the chapters there are references to worksheets in Excel that can be downloaded free from my website: www.brucon.se.
In addition to the above-mentioned persons, I would like to extend a warm thanks to my wife Ingelöv, who has been very patient when I’ve been totally absent in the “wonderful world of plastics” and then proofread the book; my brother Hans-Peter, who has spent countless hours on adjustments of all the images etc; and my son-in-law Stefan Bruder, who has checked the contents of the book and contributed with many valuable comments....

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