Another rave review

Our best-selling title (in units) has always been the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook, 2nd Edition, by Frank Watts.  Below is just another example of why this book never stops selling!  If you don’t have it in your collection of William Andrew titles, you are missing out.

Dear Frank,

Inertia Switch would like to thank you for some of the best wisdom regarding configuration management.  We were recently awarded several quality awards and received our IS9001 and AS9100 certification last month.  A majority of our audit revolved a great deal around design and development control.  We received 100% scores in these areas resulting from techniques we used in your book.  We are an old but newly managed Aerospace company serving the world.  Some customers are NASA, Lockheed, Airbus, Boeing, Raytheon, and Sikorsky.  All of these companies have accepted our methods and most have commented that they wish their system was as simple.   We feel confident that your “good logic” will continue to grow our company for many years to come.  Again many more thanks from all of us. 

Best Regards,

Brian DiGirolamo
Vice President, Chief Engineer

Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions

Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions will be shipping no later than May 4, 2008. This book is written for environmentalists, regulators, policy makers, contractors, and activist citizens who are unaware of munitions issues, as well as for military munitions experts and decision-makers needing to understand the critical environmental and health risks arising from munitions issues. It will also be essential reading for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other personnel responsible for cleaning up active and Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS).

Society of Vacuum Coaters Show

William Andrew will be attending the Society of Vacuum Coaters Technical Conference in Chicago, April 21-22nd at the Hyatt Regency.  We will be featuring several new titles at the conference for the deposition and thin film audience, so we hope to see you there.

Plastics.com Fully Functional

Just a quick note to let everyone know that our bookstore is up and running on plastics.com.  We met again with Greg Koski (Principal) of plastics.com at the MassPlastics show and we are already talking about how we can improve and add to the current offerings.  At the moment, you can see well over 60 of our titles on their site and we are looking forward to seeing how their community concept will work out in the very near future.  We are also looking forward to seeing book reviews within their multiple forums as well as trying to work together on ensuring William Andrew continues to provide current and applicable information for the plastics industry and beyond.

MassPlastics a Success

William Andrew and its imprint, Plastics Design Library had an effective and interesting time at the MassPlastics show on March 26th and 27th.  Of highest importance was the added exposure of our highly popular line of plastics references, handbooks, and most of all our Chemical Resistance database (in it’s 4th Edition).  It was good to see that the plastics industry is still pushing forward and to see new technologies and ideas making their way into an industry that has been around for quite some time.

Many thanks to all those who stopped by our booth and chatted with us about their information needs and desires, and special thanks to those who told us “I have lots of your books already…looks like I need some more!”

massPLASTICS

William Andrew, and its imprint Plastics Design Library will be attending the massPLASTICS show on March 26th and 27th in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. We hope to see you there!

Chemical Resistance Database

For those of you who know and sell this product, you will know that it had been delayed for several months.  However, Chemical Resistance of Plastics and Elastomers, 4th Edition is currently being pressed and is expected to start shipping in less than two weeks.  This is the world’s largest compilation of data on the effects of chemicals on plastics and elastomers.  So, if you need to know how your material will react to certain reagents, this is the first place you should turn.

Plastics.com

William Andrew has recently signed up with Plastics.comto provide users with content from our main imprint Plastics Design Library as well as selected titles in other subject areas such as Micro & Nano Technologies, Coatings (Surface Engineering) and Technical Documentation.

Since November of 1994 plastics.com, and it’s predecessors have been helping plastics professionals, industry workers and the public when looking for information on the plastics industry. They provide technical, scientific or business info, career assistance and camaraderie of people within the plastics industry.  Plastics.com has created a series of on-line communities related to multiple aspects of the industry and we believe that users will respond positively to the myriad offerings of William Andrew’s applied science handbooks, references, and databases.

The William Andrew section of the site should be fully functional by the end of March.

The MNT Series

It is important to share the overarching reasoning behind certain decisions made at publishing companies with the people we sell books to…  So, in the upcoming posts we’ll be sharing the intentions and driving forces behind our major series.  Today’s post is about the MNT (Micro & Nano Technologies) series which has just launched its first two (2) titles.

Mission Statement
The aim of this series is to disseminate the latest developments in small scale technologies with a particular emphasis for accessible and practical content.  These books will appeal to engineers from industry, academia, and government sectors.

People
Dr. Nigel Hollingworth is the publisher and acquisitions editor for the MNT series.
Dr. Jeremy Ramsden is the Series Editor for the MNT series.  He is a Professor of Nanotechnology at Cranfield University, United Kingdom and Editor-in-Chief of two journals.

Outlook
The first two books in the series: Microdrops and Digital Microfluidics; and Micromixers have just been published in February 2008. We expect to publish approximately 8 more titles in 2008.  More information on those titles is forthcoming…

Recently Published Books

Here’s a quick list of recent books published (or distributed) by William Andrew.  In case you were not aware, William Andrew handles all North American sales while Elsevier is distributing our titles in all territories outside North America.  There are a few books which do not fit into this agreement…The best way to see the difference is that there will NOT be a link to purchase them outside North America.  These books are all in stock.

• Biotechnology
  • Biodetection Technologies, 4th Edition
• Cosmetics & Pharmaceuticals
  • Global Regulatory Issues for the Cosmetics Industry
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Handbook of Silicon Wafer Cleaning Technology, 2nd Edition
• Energy
  • The Second Law of Life
  • Fuel Cells Durability, 2nd Edition
  • Lithium Mobile Power
  • Small Fuel Cells for Portable Applications, 8th Edition
• Industrial Chemicals
  • Handbook of Antistatics
  • Database of Antistatics
  • Special Effect Pigments
  • Solvents Database, 3rd Edition
• Materials
  • Selection of Polymeric Materials
  • Effect of Temperature on Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition
  • Fluorinated Ionomers
  • Handbook of Material Weathering, 4th Edition
  • Handbook of Thermoplastic Elastomers
  • Polyurethanes
• Micro & Nano Technology
  • Microdrops and Digital Microfluidics
  • Micromixers
• Safety, Health & Hygiene
  • Sittig’s Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, 5th Edition
• Science & Technology
  • Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery
• Surface Engineering
  • Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning
  • Vacuum Deposition onto Webs, Films and Foils