What is the work in the plastics industry?
Those who work in the plastics industry are involved in the production of the raw materials, the designing of the products, and product mould, and in the processing techniques. There are others that handle marketing of plastics and plastic products, research and development of new products and usage, and in administration and management. The production of raw materials is normally handled by chemical engineers, or plastics/ polymer technologists through compounding of polymers in large reactors, from which moulding powder or chips are obtained which form the basis of plastic products. These are then put through various processing operations such as extrusion, injection moulding, film blowing and so on to be made into products of consumption. In fact, polymer, the mother of all plastics has various other applications in the areas of natural and synthetic rubber, fibres, polythene, nylon and a range of PVC and PET products. Chemical engineers, plastics technologists and polymer scientist
