Author: Jack Avery
Published: 2001
Number of Pages: 203
Number of Tables: 5
Number of Figures: 204

New technologies always attract interest, especially when they promise to solve many of the problems associated with the manufacture of products and performance issues. Gas-assist injection molding is no different. The industry thirst for information on all aspects of this process - design, tooling, process, troubleshooting - resulted in a wide range of courses and seminars, but no in-depth resource. The result is this book; this book provides practical information that helps industrial designers, product designers, toolmakers, and molders to design and manufacture higher value, more cost-effective products. It also benefits students who are interested in plastics product design and processing and product managers and sourcing professionals who need additional information on this process.

 

Jack Avery is Manager of Operational Assets at GE Plastics. He has worked at GE Plastics for 30 years in a variety of areas, including research and development, quality control, manufacturing, marketing and technology. Mr. Avery has been active in conversion process technology, including structural foam, blow molding, extrusion, multiprocess technology and gas-assist injection molding. In his current position, Avery is responsible for working with conversion process equipment manufacturers on advanced development programs in GE Plastics' Polymer Processing Development Center. Avery is chairman of the Plastics Molders and Manufacturers Association of SME. He has been active in the Society of Plastics Industry's Structural Plastics Division where he has held a number of positions, including Division Chairman from 1994-1996. As Division Chairman, he led the outreach effort to develop a strategic partnership with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He received the SPI Structural Plastics Division's 1996 Industry Recognition Award which is presented in recognition of significant contributions to the development and growth of the industry. Avery has also authored Injection Molding Alternatives: A Guide for Designers and Product Engineers, published in 1998 by Hanser Gardner. He has made over 25 presentations at conferences on process technology and has organized and chaired technical sessions at conferences worldwide. Avery earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bloomsburg State College and a masters degree in organic chemistry at John Carroll University.

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