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Database Description

PIRA (Packaging, Paper, Printing and Publishing, Imaging and Nonwovens Abstracts) provides comprehensive coverage of the literature of the pulp and paper, packaging, printing, publishing, imaging and nonwovens industries.

Both the scientific and business aspects of these industries are covered. Business information accounts for 30% of the current input to the database, with the exception of Imaging Abstracts. Technical questions, market statistics, company profiles, production processes, machinery and equipment, environmental issues, new products, and end uses are covered in depth. PIRA's coverage is worldwide, giving a unique view of international business and technology as they pertain to pulp and paper, packaging, printing, publishing, and nonwovens. Each record contains an informative abstract in English. PIRA corresponds to the following print abstract journals: International Packaging Abstracts, Paperbase Abstracts, Printing Abstracts, World Publishing Monitor, Nonwovens Abstracts, and Imaging Abstracts (added 1995). Paperbase Abstracts is produced by Paperbase International, a joint venture partnership bringing together the expertise and experience of leading pulp and paper institutes: CTP (France), KCL (Finland), Pira International (UK) and STFI-Packforsk (Sweden). PIRA is also available in compact-disc format, DIALOG OnDisc^TM Paper, Printing & Packaging Database.

Subject Coverage

Packaging

• Company Information
• Distribution
• Operations and Machinery
• Environmental Issues
• Market Information & Statistics
• Package Design
• Packaging for Specific Products
• Packaging Materials
• Retail and Transit Packs

Printing and Publishing

• Company Information
• Direct Mail
• Distribution
• Electronic Media
• Finishing
• Market Trends and Statistics
• Prepress and Desktop Publishing
• Printed and Published Products
• Printing Processes
• Publishing Office

Pulp and Paper

• Biotechnology
• Coating and Finishing
• Company Information
• Instrumentation and Control
• Machinery and Equipment
• Market Information and Statistics
• Non-wood Fibers, Byproducts
• Papermaking
• Pulping
• Raw Materials
• Recycling and Waste Paper
• Testing
• Water and Effluent
• Wood

Nonwovens

• Company Information
• Composites
• Environmental Issues
• Fibres
• Market Information
• Process Technologies
• Products and End-Uses

Imaging

• Cinematography
• Digital Imaging, Video, and Printing
• Electron Microscopy
• Emulsion Vehicles, Supports, Types and Properties
• Equipment, Materials, Accessories and Techniques
• Holography and Interferometry
• Lithography
• Medical Photography and Radiography
• Microfilm
• Processing Chemicals and Solutions
• Space and Aerial Photography, Remote Sensing, Infrared Photography

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No part of the PIRA database may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without permission in writing from Pira International.