7th edition 2010, 480 pages, with CD-ROM
Trying to serve plastics engineers speaking different languages and to breach the
language barriers within the international plastics community, the idea was born
to compile a Glossary of Plastics Terminology in several languages. Although the
problems involved in such a word-to-word translation of technical terms without
further explanation or interpretation are plentiful, it was nevertheless felt that
such a compact "vademecum" would be useful for the plastics technologist and others
involved in plastics.
The Glossary is now also available in electronic format. For the first time it covers
Chinese and Russian as well as English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German translations
of approx. 2200 terms related to chemistry, properties, testing and technology of
plastics. In general, the user will find only one translation for any technical
term in each language, used most often in the daily work of people involved with
plastics.