Pastics Manufacturing Textbook

That's a very broad topic. People spend 4-5 years learning about manufacturing of plastics. Thermoplastic? thermosat? injection molded? Blow molded? Vacuum formed? Lamination? Rotational molded? Hand lay-up. Press lay-up?

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And most universities have information.

Obviously the question is too broad for a simple answer.

I recommend you start with ENGINEERING MATERIALS HANDBOOK VOLUME 2 ENGINEERING PLASTICS published by ASM INTERNATIONAL. Volumn 1 covers Composites. I recommend you look over the list of titles published by ASM International.

Here is a good web site about materials thet may also help.

http://www.matweb.com/