This bestselling handbook provides detailed, basic information on the design and manufacture of molds for injection, compression and transfer molding (casting, impregnating, winding, centrifugal casting, laminating), and molding of expandable polystyrene.

1. MOLDS FOR VARIOUS PROCESSING METHODS

2. Injection Molds

3. Compression and Transfer Molds

4. Blow Molds

5. Thermoforming Molds

6. Rotational Molding Tools

7. Molds for Processing Reaction Resins

8. Molds for the Foaming of Expandable Polystyrene

9. MOLD MATERIALS

10. Steels

11. Bronzes

12. Aluminum Alloys for Molding Tools for the Plastics Industry

13. Zinc Alloys

14. Plastics as Raw Material for Constructing Molds

15. Silicone Rubber

16. MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING METHODS

17. Cast Bronze and Light Alloy Molds

18. Electroformed Mold Cavities and Mold Shells

19. The Significance of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) in Mold Making

20. Erosion Electrodes: A Bottleneck in Electrical Discharge Machining

21. SECONDARY TREATMENT METHODS

22. Surface Treatment Methods

23. Polishing of Tool Steels

24. Surface Texturing of Molds for the Plastics Processing Industry

25. Metal Spraying with Low Melting Point Alloys

26. Discharge Coating

27. Mold Repair and Protection with Selective Plating

28. Standard Elements for Molds

29. Mold Maintenance

30. Checklists for Mold Orders

31. Index