This second edition of the Blow Molding Handbook — an industry standard for over a decade — provides insight into critical areas such as product design, meeting performance requirements, reducing costs, and achieving near-zero defect targets. It provides details on fabricating the various types of blow molded products and incorporates all new techniques. It also discusses operation and troubleshooting of basic extruders and injection molding machinery required to successfully blow mold products. The intent is to provide a complete review of the important aspects of the blow molding process that goes from the practical to the theoretical and from the elementary to the advanced.

From the Preface: “...The book provides an understanding on the subject of BM for either the technical or nontechnical reader that is concise, practical, and comprehensive, starting with the plastic's melt flow behavior during processing...People with different interests can focus on and interrelate across subjects with which they have limited or no familiarity. As explained throughout this book, understanding the BM process is required to be successful in the design, prototype, and manufacture of the many different, marketable BM products worldwide...”

Target Audience: Fabricators, designers, mold makers, engineers, technicians, students, and others concerned with the blow molding process.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Plasticator Melting Operation

Extrusion Blow Molding

Injection Blow Molding

Stretch Blow Molding

Tooling (Dies and Molds)

Plastic Types and Processability

Fundamentals of Product Design

Process Control

Computer Operation

Process Selection and Auxiliary Equipment and Secondary Operations

Trouble Shooting and Maintenance

Index