The Standards Section: The newly revised version provides molding tolerances for plastics materials along with commercial and administrative practices. The engineering section includes keys to successful design of plastics molded parts (with drawings) as well as US standard and metric tolerances for 27 plastics materials. It includes a glossary of terms, a bibliography and list of references.

The Practices Section: This section covers what is accepted as standard practice in the plastic's industry. Topics include contractual obligations, production and handling of tooling, packaging and shipping, limitations on shipping, claims for defects, patents, product design and development.

Who should buy this? Buyers, quality control, designers, and manufacturing engineers. This is very useful to anyone specifying or selling plastic parts.