Plastics and Resin Compositions is a companion volume to an earlier RSC title, Plastics: Surface and Finish, which dealt with the manufacture and finishing of goods composed mainly of polymers. This new book supplements that information and describes methods of preparing planar materials, mouldings and other compositions in which resins are combined with various substances, both organic and inorganic. Plastics and Resin Compositions provides numerous examples of such compositions, along with properties and methods of test in a variety of applications, including building, construction, electrical and electronic goods, industrial plant, packaging, printing, and the conservation of artefacts, books and documents. It illuminates the extensive advantages of combined materials in an even wider range of applications than its predecessor, showing especially how the properties of more traditional materials may be modified and extended in complex combinations. The book indicates both the scope of contemporary techniques and the extensive opportunities likely to be available in the future. It will bring interested parties up-to-date and will be of immense interest to those wishing to know how goods are made - a must for materials scientists, technicians and students, worldwide.