When we buy textiles, we expect them to hold their colour. The original colour should be preserved for years to come, perhaps even forever.

Packaging materials ensure that goods can be transported without being damaged as easily. They are used in almost all areas and the demands placed on them re correspondingly diverse.

Their high hardness, wear resistance, heat resistance and other properties make high-performance ceramics an important material. This 2nd edition of DIN Taschenbuch 470 is a comprehensive collection of standards for testing monolithic high-performance materials, including a series of selected documents on ceramic powders.

The possible applications of steel and iron are enormously diverse, and the standards in this specialized field are correspondingly wide-ranging. They cover the various aspects of steels and iron and provide professionals with the necessary knowledge and requirements to work in accordance with standards.

The series 2 of the two-volume DIN Taschenbuch “Technisches Zeichnen” contains the relevant standards for basic principles and mechanical drawing. It offers technical draughtspeople as well as students and trainees a valuable working aid that provides the collected knowledge in a compact format.

Due to their load-bearing capacity, round steel link chains are the sling of choice and are indispensable in industry and transport, but also in many other areas of application. The diversity of possible applications is also reflected in the standardization of round steel link chains, which in turn is reflected in the large scope of this book.

Steel and iron are among the most important materials for construction and production, and their economic importance is just as great as their areas of application. This book (in German only) contains a large number of standards that reflect the various possible applications of steel and iron.